Artuss Kaimiņš

In January 2020, Kaimiņš was expelled from the KPV LV parliamentary faction owing to alleged disloyalty to the party line.

On 21 June 2018, the Saeima Mandates, Ethics and Submissions Committee granted permission for Kaimiņš to be detained and searched with regard to an ongoing corruption investigation.

Since 2014 he has been actively involved in politics. He is currently a member of Latvian Parliament. Originally elected at the 2014 elections as a member of the Latvian Association of Regions, he left the party in December 2015 to serve as an independent MP. On May 3, 2016, he founded his own political movement, Who Owns the State? (KPV LV), which later evolved into a political party. Elected on the KPV LV ticket at the 2018 elections, he was expelled from the party's parliamentary faction in January 2020.

On May 3, 2016 he started his own new political movement Who Owns the State? (Kam pieder valsts, abbreviated as KPV LV).

Coming back from a business trip to Lisbon in 2016, Kaimiņš was accused of behaving aggressively towards a flight attendant when he complained that announcements concerning arrangements for transit passengers were being made only in English and Russian and not Latvian, even though they were in Latvian airspace at a time when Latvia held the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union. He videoed the conversation and refused to delete the film, at which point he was informed that the police would be alerted. When the plane landed, got a chat with a flight attendant about the languages on a video and when she asked him to delete it, he refused. When the plane had landed in Riga, Kaimiņš was indeed met by the police and was briefly detained, although he insists he voluntarily reported to the police.

He changed his birth name in 2015 from Arturs to Artuss.

Artuss Kaimiņš was elected in 2014 as the person with the most votes for an individual in Latvia. He ran as a member of the Latvian Association of Regions when he was elected to the 12th Latvian Parliament. The next year, he left the party for several reasons. According to Kaimiņš, he objected to his party's potential endorsement of Solvita Āboltiņa for the post of Prime Minister and certain party policies. He himself has also said that the personal intentions of other members of the Latvian Association of Regions were not beneficial for the party and came before all policies and reasoning.

In 2014, following the annual Latvian theatre awards ceremony Spēlmaņu nakts a press photographer pressed charges against Kaimiņš, accusing him of humiliation and physical and verbal harassment. The case was brought before the Ethics Committee of the Saeima, before which he has also been summoned subsequently. Artuss Kaimiņš has repeatedly been blamed for promoting alcohol in his video blogs and interviews as a radio host in Boom FM. The radio station is not registered as a media outlet so it is not regulated by the government.

Artuss Kaimiņš (born Arturs Kaimiņš on November 3, 1980, in Bauska) is a Latvian actor, politician and radio host. He is known as a Boom FM radio host. He is a well-known controversial figure in Latvian politics and culture. He previously served as leader of the political party Who Owns the State?.

Kaimiņš is a graduate of Riga Secondary School No 64 and the Latvian Academy of Culture. His father is attorney Maris Mūrnieks. His grandmother, Baiba Kaimiņa (born December 7, 1937 in Igate), was a gymnast, as was his mother, Liene Kaimiņa.