Sarmīte Ēlerte, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Latvian journalist and politician
Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1957
Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia
Profession: politician, journalist
Nationality: Latvia
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
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About Sarmīte Ēlerte
- Sarmite Elerte (born 8 April 1957, Riga, Latvian SSR) is a Latvian politician, member of the Unity party and former Minister of Culture of Latvia from 3 November 2010 until 25 October 2011.Elerte graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the University of Latvia in 1980.
- In 1983-1988 she studied film critics at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow.
- From 1978 to 1988 she worked as a journalist in the magazine "Maksla Literature".
- In 1988 she joined the Popular Front of Latvia where she organized the information department.
- After the victory of the Front in the 1990 election she was the director of the Information Centre of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia.
- She served this function until 1991.
- In 1990 she was appointed chief of the newly created "Diena" newspaper and two years later she became the newspaper's head editor.
- She held this position until 2008.
- She was a head of the Latvian branch of the Soros Foundation in 1997–2006.
- In 2007 Elerte became a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, which included, among others Mart Laar, Martti Ahtisaari, Joschka Fischer and George Soros.
- She is a head of the Baltic to Black Sea Alliance.
- Until 2009 she is a chair of National Council for Culture.In 2007, along with Sandra Kalniete she was the initiator of the so-called Umbrella revolution (Lietussargu Revolucija) directed against the oligarchy and the ruling class.
- In 2010 she was engaged in a process of consolidation of the Latvian center-right forces.
- In March 2010, she founded the Association for Progressive Change them.
- Zigfrids Anna Meierovics.In the elections of 2010 she established the electoral platform of "Unity" in Semigallia from which she was elected to the Saeima (Latvian Parliament).
- On November 3, 2010 she was appointed as the minister of culture in the second government of Valdis Dombrovskis.
- She held this position until October 25, 2011.
- She lost in the 2011 election to the Saeima.
- She was advisor to Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis.
- On November 26, 2012 she was nominated a candidate for the office of mayor of Riga by the Unity party.
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