Mayor Blamed for Slot Machine Confusion

The Riga City Council is calling for the city’s mayor to resign after a series of events that led to some slot machine confusion. Mayor Aivars Aksenoks has been mayor for over two years, but the city council says that they believe that the mayor’s part in the slot machine confusion as of late is more than enough reason to get rid of him.

Almost half of the city council members voted to remove him from office after eleven slot machine licenses had to be revoked last week. The city had just issued the slot machine licenses eight months prior to the revoking, and the mayor’s opponents say that he is to blame for the confusion.

The council says that since the slot machine licenses had to be revoked, they are most likely going to be looking at lawsuits from those who owned them. His opponents say that there will definitely be lawsuits brought against the council, and since the mayor is to blame for the slot machine confusion he should resign immediately.

They also say that Aksenoks is responsible for a concert hall not being approved, and they say that this combined with the slot machine fiasco is more than enough reason to remove him from office. Aksenoks says that he wants to see a concert hall come in; he just felt this was the wrong project for it. Gambling has increased since Latvia joined the EU back in 2004 – as has their strip clubs. Many feel that the mayor is continuing a downward spiral and they want to remove him before he can do any more harm.

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