Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai / LNNK

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Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai / LNNK
For Fatherland and Freedom / LNNK
Logo of the TB / LNNK
Party leader Roberts Zīle (2006-2011)
founding TB: February 1, 1993
TB / LNNK: June 21, 1997
resolution July 23, 2011
Headquarters Riga
Alignment National conservatism , economic liberalism
Colours) gold
European party Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR)
EP Group European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)
Website www.tb.lv

Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai / LNNK ( German  For Fatherland and Freedom / LNNK ) was a nationalist political party in Latvia from 1997 to 2011 . After the party had already entered into an electoral alliance with "Visu Latvijai" in the 2010 parliamentary elections, both parties formally became the Nacionālā apvienība "Visu Latvijai!" - "Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai / LNNK" ( German  National Association ") party on July 23, 2011 Everything for Latvia "-" For Fatherland and Freedom / Latvian National Independence Movement " ) united.

The name

Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai is Latvia's motto, comparable to unity and law and freedom in Germany, and can be found, for example, as an inscription on the base of the Freedom Monument in Riga .

history

The party's roots can be found in the Latvian independence movement of the late 1980s, especially in the more radical sections of the movement that called for a full restoration of Latvian independence and insisted on the continuity of the Republic of Latvia, which they considered mere through the Soviet occupation of 1940 looked at interrupted.

The party was founded in 1993 under the name Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai . In 1997 it merged with the LNNK ( Latvian National Independence Movement ) and took its current name.

In the 1990s, Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai fought for the implementation of strict language and citizenship laws . The party was the driving force behind two attempts to tighten Latvian citizenship laws through referendums . In 1994 the request did not reach the required number of signatures; In 1998 it was rejected by a relatively narrow majority (45% for, 52% against). At the end of the 1990s, the party turned increasingly to economic issues after the other issues had largely been dealt with.

Election results

Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai was regularly represented in the Latvian parliament Saeima since 1993, but with decreasing success: So achieved in the elections

  • 1993: Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai - 6, LNNK - 15 seats,
  • 1995: Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai - 14, LNNK - 7 seats,
  • 1998: Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai / LNNK - 17 seats (14.7% of the vote),
  • 2002: Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai / LNNK - 7 seats (5.4% of the vote),
  • 2006: Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai / LNNK - 8 seats (6.9% of the vote).
  • 2010: Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai / LNNK - 2 seats (together with "Visu Latvijai" 8 seats - 7.67%)

Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai was part of a government coalition from December 1995 to February 2004 and since December 2006. Guntars Krasts was Latvian Prime Minister from 1997 to 1998 , with Jānis Straume as party leader.

Tēvzemei un Brīvībai is a member of the group European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) in the European Parliament and is one of Europe party AECR on. In the election campaign for the 2004 European elections , the party showed itself to be the guardian of Latvian national interests and an opponent of a federal Europe . That earned her 29% of the vote and four out of nine Latvian seats. In the European elections in Latvia in 2009 , however, she only got one of the eight Latvian seats.

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