As Prime Minister
After the resignation of New Era Party leader Einars Repse's government, President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga assigned Emsis to form a new government; Saeima voted Emsis' government in office in March 2004.
On 9 March 2004, he became the prime minister of Latvia, leading a centre-right minority government consisting of The Greens and Rustics union, Latvia's First Party and Latvian People's Party. For most of time, the government was also supported by the leftist National Harmony Party.
Emsis was the first member of a Green party to become Prime Minister of a country. On 28 October 2004, the government fell as the Saeima voted 39–53 against the government's budget proposal for the year 2005. He left office on 2 December 2004, when parliament confirmed Aigars Kalvītis of the People's Party as Prime Minister.
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