sentences:  Bresis supported the idea of Latvia as an independent country, voting in favour of the declaration of renewed independence on 4 May 1990.Under his leadership, Latvia started to break up collective farms and created the first 8,000 privately owned farms.After the first relatively free election in Latvia since the 1930s in March 1990 and subsequent to the declaration of independence, Bresis was replaced as Premier by Ivars Godmanis, one of the leaders of the pro-independence Popular Front of Latvia.