Latvijas Zaļā partija

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Latvijas Zaļā partija
Green Party of Latvia
Logo of the LZP
Party leader Viesturs Silenieks
founding January 13, 1990
Headquarters Kalnciema iela 30,
Riga , LV 1046, Latvia
Alignment Green politics , centrism , conservatism
Colours) green
Number of members 480 (as of 2004)
International connections Global Greens
Website www.zp.lv

The Green Party of Latvia ( Latvian Latvijas Zaļā partija , LTC ) is a party that was founded in the 1990th Together with the Latvian Farmers' Association ( Latvijas Zemnieku savienība , LZS ) it forms an alliance of Greens and Farmers ( Lat.Zaļo un Zemnieku savienība ) and participated in the elections for the 13th Saeima , the Latvian Parliament, in 2018 9.9% of the votes and thus 11 out of 100 seats. The farmers' association provides all members.

The alliance of greens and farmers was part of the government coalition until 2019. In 2004, Indulis Emsis was the world's first head of government of a green party , which he chaired from 1995 to 2008. In 2015 , Parliament elected the then Green Party leader Raimonds Vējonis as President of Latvia .

Content profile

This party is based on the "Green Ideas" . The Latvians should shape their lives in solidarity and fairness with one another. They should achieve a high standard of living, promote the family and culture of Latvia , honor existing and generally recognized traditions , protect the environment and develop ecological ideas.

The Latvian Greens position themselves much more conservatively than their sister parties in Western European countries, which tend to be on the left. Asserting the Latvian national identity is just as important to the party as protecting the natural environment. In the 1990s, their attitude towards citizenship law hardly differed from that of the national conservative LNNK . This can be summarized as a nativistic element in their program.

history

Origin and foundation

The Green Party was founded on January 13, 1990 as the first new party in awakening Latvia , even before Latvia's official independence (May 4, 1990).

The idea of ​​founding a political organization representing the green ideals in Latvia matured at the first conference for "Green Logic" in autumn 1989.

The "founding fathers" of the Green Party were: Olegs Batarevskis , Indulis Emsis , Juris Zvirgzds , Arvīds Ulme , Valts Vilnītis and others.

Membership development

Number of members of the Green Party of Latvia
year Members annotation
1990 123 -
1991 286 -
1992 354 -
1993 130 after the new registration;
1995 182 -
1996 237 -
1998 279 -
1999 315 -
2000 341 -
2001 392 -
2002 437 -
2003 463 -
2004 480 -
2008 600 provisionally

Status: 2004

Green Party logo

The symbol of the Green Party of Latvia is the " tree of the East " (lett. Austra coke ) lower in the central part of the logo, is what protected by the "Symbol of God" (lett. Dieva zīme ), an umbrella for protection and union all underneath being .

Election results

Results in the parliamentary elections
year be right proportion of Mandates space
1993 149,347 13.4%
1/100
1 		2.
1995 60,352 6.3%
4/100
2 		7th
1998 22,018 2.3%
0/100
3 		8th.
2002 93,759 9.5%
3/100
4th 		5.
2006 151,595 16.8%
3/100
5 		2.
2010 190.025 20.1%
4/100
6th 		2.
2011 111.955 12.2%
4/100
7th 		5.
2014 176.922 19.7%
4/100
8th 		3.
Results in the European elections
year be right proportion of Mandates space
2004 24,405 4.3%
0/9
9 		8th.
2009 29,463 3.7%
0/8
9 		10.
2014 36,637 8.3%
0/8
10 		4th
1As an electoral alliance with the Latvian National Independence Movement , which received 14 other mandates.
2 As an electoral alliance with the Latvian National Independence Movement, which received four other mandates.
3As an electoral alliance with the Labor Party and the Christian-Democratic Union .
4thAs an electoral alliance, the alliance of the Greens and Farmers with the Farmers' Union of Latvia , which received nine further mandates.
5 As an electoral alliance, the alliance of the Greens and Farmers with the Farmers' Union of Latvia, which received 14 further mandates.
6thAs an electoral alliance, the Alliance of Greens and Farmers with the Farmers' Union of Latvia, which received 15 further mandates, and For Latvia and Windau , which received three mandates.
7th As an electoral alliance, the Alliance of Greens and Farmers with the Farmers' Union of Latvia, which received seven further mandates, and For Latvia and Windau, which received two mandates.
8thAs an electoral alliance, the alliance of the Greens and Farmers with the Farmers' Union of Latvia, which received nine further mandates, For Latvia and Windau, which achieved three mandates, and the Libau party , which received three mandates.
9 As an electoral alliance, the Alliance of Greens and Farmers with the Farmers' Union of Latvia.
10 As an electoral alliance, the alliance of the Greens and Farmers with the Farmers' Union of Latvia, which received a mandate.


Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marja Nissinen: Latvia's Transition to a Market Economy. Political Determinants of Economic. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke (Hampshire) / New York 1999, p. 119.
  2. ↑ Aldis Purs, Andrejs Plakans: Historical Dictionary of Latvia. 3rd edition, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham (MD) / London 2017, p. 133, entry Green Party (Latvijas Zaļā partija) .

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