Jaunā konservatīvā partija

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Jaunā konservatīvā partija
Logo of the JKP
Party leader Jānis Bordāns
Party leader Jānis Bordāns
founding May 2014
Headquarters Peldu iela 26/28
Riga , LV-1050
Alignment Conservatism , liberalism
Parliament seats
15/100
Website conservativie.lv

Jaunā konservatīvā partija ( JKP , German "New Conservative Party") is a conservative and pro-Western party in Latvia.

history

The party was founded in May 2014 by Jānis Bordāns , who had previously been a member of the right-wing conservative Nacionālā apvienība (NA) and Minister of Justice in Dombrovski's government from 2012 to 2014 . The JKP positions itself further in the political center than the NA.

The JKP had not yet run in the 2014 European elections. In the 2014 parliamentary elections , the party was not yet able to convince and only received 0.7% of the vote and was unable to win a mandate.

In the parliamentary election in October 2018 , the JKP became the third strongest force with 13.6% of the vote and 16 of the 100 seats in the Saeima . Since January 2019 she has been part of the coalition government under Krišjānis Kariņš . The JKP has three ministers in its cabinet: Ilga Šuplinska (education and science), Tālis Linkaits (transport) and Jānis Bordāns (justice).

Content profile

The party's program is primarily aimed at combating corruption. Two prominent candidates from the party, Juta Strīķe and Juris Jurašs , were civil servants at the Bureau of Corruption Prevention and Control (KNAB) prior to entering politics in 2017 . The party wants to merge the KNAB, the security police and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution into a national security agency that is supposed to fight corruption and other threats to national security. In addition, the JKP calls for the closure of gambling halls, a ban on short-term loans, an increase in the minimum wage (to € 500 per month), doctors' salaries (to € 1,700 per month) and child benefit. Government spending on science and research is expected to rise to 1.5% of gross domestic product . In return, it wants to reduce the number of employees in the public sector to 30% and the number of ministries from 13 to 8.

Election results

Results in the parliamentary elections
year be right proportion of Mandates space
2014 6,389 0.7%
0/100
 10.
2018 114,694 13.6%
16/100
 3.
Results in the European elections
year be right proportion of Mandates space
2014 - -
0/8
 -
2019 20,595 4.4%
0/8
 8th.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c 13th Saeima elections: The parties. In: LSM.lv (Latvian Public Broadcasting), August 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Juris Kaža: Who Is Who In Upcoming Latvian Parliamentary Elections? In: re: baltica , August 14, 2018.