It is proposed to increase defense spending to 2.5% or 3% of GDP in Latvia

The "New Unity" party calls for further strengthening of national defense capabilities in favor of the continued presence of NATO allies in Latvia and the "National Alliance" for all Latvia "-" Motherland and Liberty "/ LNNK also advocates a gradual increase in defense spending in the future, said the party's president at the LETA agency. Raivis Dzintars. Understanding the relevance of this goal is also the relevance of NATO's relations. According to Dzintars,

The Union of Greens and Farmers (ZZS) "is very interested in the auctioning process" to see if anyone may want to spend 4% also at the same time. US President Donald Tramps' initiative, Augustus Brigmanis, chairman of the ZZS Saeima faction, told the LETA agency. But the political force is more likely to rely on the experts' field vision rather than the pre-election statements of political forces that are unlikely to have a post-election prime minister, a politician said. an increase of ZZS will still be settled. Brigman pointed out that he was open to this conversation, but one must take into account that the fiscal space is limited and that the political forces that "take care" of the increase of these funds should know who will remove them – for doctors, retirees or others

The information provided by the Ministry of Defense show that in 2016, the budget of the defense sector of Latvia accounted for 1, 4% of the gross domestic product, but in 2017 it was 1.7%. In 2018, the defense sector budget was increased to 2% of gross domestic product. The defense budget for this year is 576.34 million euros, or 126.8 million more than last year.