Latvijas Krievu savienība

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Latvijas Krievu savienība
Party leader Tatiana Ždanoka, Miroslaw Mitrofanow, Juri Petropawlowski
founding 2007
Alignment Democratic socialism , Russophilia ,
Parliament seats
0/100
( 2018 )
MEPs
1/8
( 2019 )
European party EFA (observer)
EP Group Greens / EFA , S&D
Website www.pctvl.lv

Latvijas Krievu savienība ( LKS ; German  Latvian Russian Union ), until January 2014 Par cilvēka tiesībām vienotā Latvijā (PCTVL, German  For Human Rights in United Latvia ), is a party (until 2007: an amalgamation of various political parties) in Latvia , which is mainly from support for Russian speakers in Latvia.

program

The PCTVL emphasizes issues that are important to the Russian part of the population. The party calls for Russian and Latvian to be introduced as the second official languages ​​in those districts of Latvia where they are spoken by more than 20% of the population, as well as to give Latvian citizenship to all non- citizens . It supports closer ties with Russia . Before Latvia's accession to NATO in 2004, the PCTVL adopted the position of the Russian government and was the only major political organization in Latvia to speak out against it. Economic issues are less in the foreground, here the PCTVL tends to take leftist positions.

history

For Human Rights in United Latvia , three parties were formed in May 1998, the People's Harmony Party , the Equal Rights Party and the Socialist Party of Latvia , all of which were supported mainly by the Russian-speaking people. It won 16 out of 100 seats in the Latvian parliamentary elections in 1998 and 25 out of 100 seats in 2002. After the successful local elections in Rīga in 2001, in which 13 out of 60 seats could be won, the PCTVL became part of the city government and its member Sergejs Dolgopolovs deputy mayor. At the state level, the party has so far remained in the opposition.

The most famous leaders of the party were Jānis Jurkāns , Alfrēds Rubiks and Tatjana Ždanoka . Rubiks and Ždanoka had previously emerged as leaders of the Latvian Communist Party and the Movement Against Latvian Independence in the early 1990s. Today Ždanoka campaigns primarily for the rights of so - called non - citizens of Latvia. It is relatively popular with the Russian community, but very unpopular with ethnic Latvians. This is one of the reasons why the PCTVL has so far been unable to assume government responsibility at the state level. Out of consideration for their Latvian voters, none of the major parties could afford to form a coalition with Rubiks and Ždanoka.

The PCTVL partially dissolved in 2003. The People’s Harmony Party (Tautas Saskaņas partija) was the first to leave the alliance, and the Latvian Socialist Party (Latvijas Sociālistiskā partija) followed six months later. Both founded the new alliance Saskaņas Centrs (Center of Harmony) in 2005 . Sergejs Dolgopolovs also left the party with the intention of founding a new party. The PCTVL remained from the original 25 members only 6 in the Saeima . In the 2006 parliamentary elections, however, it was overtaken by Saskaņas Centrs and since the 2010 elections it has not been able to win a parliamentary mandate.

European Parliament

At the European level, the PCTVL or LKS is an observing member of the European Free Alliance (EFA), an alliance of regionalist parties. One of their proposals is the creation of a Europe-wide party of ethnic Russians. The party supports a federal Europe with a “common political and economic area from Lisbon to Vladivostok ”. Her first member of the European Parliament , Tatjana Ždanoka , was elected in 2009 and re-elected in 2014 and 2019. The party belongs to the group The Greens / European Free Alliance in the European Parliament .

Latvian parliamentary election results

  • Parliamentary election 1998: 14.1%, so 16 seats (out of 100) - the seats were originally won by the Tautas Saskaņas partija
  • Parliamentary election 2002: 19.0%, so 25 seats (of 100)
  • Parliamentary election 2006: 6.0%, so 6 seats (out of 100)
  • General election 2010: 0 seats
  • Parliamentary election 2011: 0 seats
  • Parliamentary election 2014: 1.6%, no seats
  • Parliamentary election 2018: 3.2%, no seats

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