The Library carries out the functions of the centre of Latvia Interlibrary Loan, ensures the library and information service to the Parliament of the Republic of Latvia - the Saeima, implements the standardisation of the branch.
Deputies are elected to represent one of five constituencies: Kurzeme (13 deputies), Latgale (15), Riga (30), Vidzeme (27), and Zemgale (15).
From 1989 to 1995, he was speaker of the Latvian parliament (first, of the Supreme Soviet of Latvian SSR, then Supreme Soviet of Republic of Latvia, then, of the Saeima, the parliament of the newly independent Latvia).
In 1995, after the parliamentary elections of 6th Saeima political parties were incapable of creating a coalition government for a while, thus Šķēle was presented as an independent candidate for the position of the Prime Minister.
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In 1998, before the parliamentary elections of 7th Saeima, Tautas partija with Šķēle as its chairman was founded.
In 1998 he was elected to 7th Saeima and was interior minister in first in Andris Šķēle and later in Andris Bērziņš cabinet in 1999-2002.
He was elected to the Saeima at the 2010 parliamentary election.