Riga City Council
In 2011, he was founding member of the Honor to serve Riga party. In 2013, he was elected to Riga City Council and on May 30, 2019 Turlais was elected the Mayor of Riga, but only after 21 days he was sacked in a vote of no-confidence by the Riga City Council, thus making him the shortest-ruling Mayor of Riga.