Latvia`s centre-right Prime Minister Evika Silina said she would resign, triggering the collapse of her coalition government just months before an election is due in October, writes Reuters.

"I am resigning, but I am not giving up", she said in a televised statement.

Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics, who is tasked by the constitution to select a leader of the government, will meet all parliamentary parties on Friday.

Silina, of the centre-right New Unity party, was lest without a ruling majority in the parliament on Wednesday after the left-wing Progressives party said it was withdrawing its support.

The desicion followed the firing at the weekend of Progressives` Defence Minister Andris Spruds over  the handling of incidents onvolving stray Ukrainian drones flying into Latvia from Russia.