Riga (AFP) – An exit poll in Latvia Saturday put the pro-Kremlin Harmony party ahead after polling stations in the country’s general election closed.

Harmony had 19.4 percent of the vote while the pro-EU, pro-NATO liberal For Development/For! was in second place with 13.4 percent, the poll by the public TV showed. Turnout was 51.31 percent, according to the election website.