Latvijas Sociālistiskā partija

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Latvijas Sociālistiskā partija ( Russian Социалистическая партия Латвии ; German  Socialist Party of Latvia ) is a political party in Latvia with a socialist orientation.

history

The Socialist Party was founded in 1994 in response to the Communist Party being banned .

In May 1998, the party joined forces with the People's Harmony Party and the Party for Equal Rights to form the grouping “ For Human Rights in United Latvia ” and so also went into the parliamentary elections on October 5, 2002. The coalition received 18.9% of the vote and 25 of the 100 seats in the Saeima .

After the alliance “For Human Rights in United Latvia” broke up in 2003, the Latvijas Sociālistiskā partija still had 5 seats in parliament. From 2005 to 2014 she participated in the alliance Saskaņas Centrs (Center of Harmony) . The party is against too much European centralism.

Content profile

The party has its supporters mainly from the Russian- speaking population of Latvia. She focuses on issues such as language laws and citizenship issues , which are important for ethnic Russians. According to the party, Latvian citizenship should be granted to all people who were citizens of the Latvian SSR in 1990 . Currently, the law only provides this for the descendants of people who were citizens of Latvia before the Soviet occupation of the country in 1940, and requires later immigrants to go through a naturalization process.

Election results

Results in the parliamentary elections
year be right proportion of Mandates space
2006 130,887 14.4%
4/100
1 		4th
2010 251.397 26.6%
4/100
2 		2.
2011 259.930 28.4%
3/100
3 		1.
Results in the European elections
year be right proportion of Mandates space
2004 9,480 1.7%
0/9
 11.
2009 154,894 19.6%
1/8
4th 		2.
2014 6,817 1.5%
0/8
 9.
1As an electoral alliance, the Center of Harmony with the New Center (one mandate), the Party of National Harmony (11 mandates) and the Dünaburg Citizens' Alliance (one mandate).
2As an electoral alliance center of harmony with the social democratic party "Harmonie" , which received another 24 mandates, and the Dünaburg citizens' alliance , which also won a mandate.
3 As an electoral alliance center of harmony with the social democratic party "Harmonie", which received another 25 mandates.
4th As an electoral alliance center of harmony with the social democratic party "Harmonie", which received another mandate.

Chairperson

Alfred Rubiks was a former leader of the Communist Party of Latvia. He was imprisoned for six years in 1991 after he was charged with attempting to overthrow the Latvian government during the August 1991 coup . He is therefore not entitled to participate in elections for the Saeima .

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