RIGA, May 7 (LETA) - For Latvia's Development Party on May 15 will hold a congress to decide on amendments to its statutes, providing that the party will have three co-chairmen instead of one, LETA learned from the party's representative Edgars Barbaks.

The party since last year does not have an officially elected chairman, while MEP Ivars Ijabs is the party's acting chairman.

Ijabs was appointed acting chairman after Juris Puce stepped down from the position of the chairman amid the scandal about parking permissions in Riga.

The congress participants will be addressed by Defense Minister Artis Pabriks, MP Juris Puce, Riga City Council lawmakers Anete Jekabsone-Zogota, the party's board member Edgars Jaunups.

For Latvia's Development in the upcoming local elections will run in 27 municipalities with 509 candidates in its own and joint tickets, including ten current local mayors.