Sociāldemokrātiskā partija "Saskaņa"

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Sociāldemokrātiskā partija "Saskaņa"
Social Democratic Party "Harmony"
Party chairman Jānis Urbanovičs
Party leader Jānis Urbanovičs
founding February 10, 2010
Headquarters Moscow Street 4 ( Maskavas iela 4 )
Rīga , LV-1811
Alignment Social democracy
Colours) red
Parliament seats
23/100
( 2018 )
MEPs
2/8
( 2019 )
EP Group S&D
Website www.saskana.info

Sociāldemokrātiskā partija "Saskaņa" ( German  social democratic party "Harmonie" ; Russian Социал-демократическая партия "Согласие" , social-democratic party "Soglasije" is a social democratic party in Latvia with a social democratic orientation and SDPS for short ) .

It emerged in 2010 from the union of the Tautas Saskaņas partija with the parties “ Jaunais centrs ” and “ Sociāldemokrātiskā partija-SDP ”. In January 2011, Daugavpils pilsētas partija joined.

The Saskaņa member of the European Parliament has been a member of the S&D group since November 2017 .

Tautas Saskaņas partija - TSP (1994-2010)

The roots of the Tautas Saskaņas partija lie in the moderate wing of the Latvian Popular Front ( Tautas Fronte ), the independence movement of Latvia in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Its leader, Jānis Jurkāns , was the first foreign minister of the again independent Latvia from 1990 to 1992, but had to resign because of moderate positions in relations with Russia . Together with other exponents of the movement he founded the alliance Saskaņa Latvijai - Atdzimšana Tautsaimniecībai , which won 13 out of 100 seats in the 1993 parliamentary election . In 1994 the alliance split, one of the two successor parties was the Tautas Saskaņas partija.

From the beginning, the People's Harmony Party was popular with ethnically Russian voters for its moderate positions on citizenship and language issues. Unlike the other parties popular with the Russian- speaking people , it had a certain proportion of ethnic Latvians in its leadership and tried to bridge the gap between the two communities.

In May 1998, the party merged with the Socialist Party of Latvia and the Party for Equal Rights to form the For Human Rights in United Latvia group and thus entered the Latvian parliamentary election on October 5, 2002 . The coalition received 18.9% of the vote and 25 out of 100 seats in the Saeima . In 2003 the Tautas Saskaņas partija left the alliance and in 2005 was the initiator of the alliance Saskaņas Centrs ( Center of Harmony ). The long-time party leader Jānis Jurkāns therefore announced his resignation. He was succeeded by Jānis Urbanovičs . In the 2004 European elections no mandate could be won in the local elections in 2005 the party lost their representation in the Riga City Council. In the election for the 9th Saeima in 2006 , however, the alliance got 17 seats in parliament, 11 of which were occupied by "Saskaņa".

The Tautas Saskaņas partija describes itself as a social democratic party. She advocates further liberalization of the Citizenship Act and wants to grant automatic citizenship to everyone who has lived in Latvia for at least ten years . (The current law makes this dependent on a naturalization procedure). It also stands for a greater diffusion of Russian and other languages ​​in the classroom.

In 2010 Tautas Saskaņas partija , " Jaunais centrs " and " Sociāldemokrātiskā partija-SDP " united to form the new Saskaņa party .

Saskaņa (from 2010)

In the election for the 10th Saeima 2010 , the electoral alliance Saskaņas centrs achieved 26.04% of the vote. Of the 29 seats, 24 were occupied by the Saskaņa party. ( Latvijas Sociālistiskā partija 4 seats and Daugavpils pilsētas partija 1 seat). In January 2011, the Daugavpils pilsētas partija was fully incorporated.

The goals of the Saskaņa party are largely identical to those of the former Tautas Saskaņas partija . The most prominent members are Nils Ušakovs and Jānis Urbanovičs.

The Saskaņa party was part and the mainstay of the Saskaņas Centrs electoral alliance , which existed from 2005 to 2014. For the 2014 parliamentary election , the party ran without its former ally Latvijas Sociālistiskā partija. In 2018, saskaņa received 23 seats after the parliamentary elections .

Election results

Results in the parliamentary elections
year be right proportion of Mandates space
2010 251.397 26.6%
24/100
1 		2.
2011 259.930 28.4%
28/100
2 		1.
2014 209,887 23.0%
24/100
 1.
2018 167.117 19.8%
23/100
 1.
Results in the European elections
year be right proportion of Mandates space
2009 154,894 19.6%
1/8
3 		2.
2014 57,863 13.0%
1/8
 3.
2019 82,604 17.4%
2/8
 2.
1As an electoral alliance center of harmony with the Socialist Party of Latvia , which received another four mandates, and the Dünaburg civic alliance , which also won a mandate.
2 As an electoral alliance center of harmony with the Socialist Party of Latvia, which received three more mandates.
3 As an electoral alliance center of harmony with the Socialist Party of Latvia, which received a further mandate.

Web links

literature

  • Imants Mednis: Partiju laiki Latvijā (1988-2002). Drukātava, Mārupe 2007, ISBN 978-9984-798-20-2 , pp. 373–378.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saskaņa joins Party of European Socialists Lettischer Rundfunk LSM, November 27, 2017, accessed on October 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ Daugavpils partija iekļaujas 'Saskaņā'; SC veidos divi spēki
  3. ↑ lsm.lv July 7, 2014, accessed October 7, 2018.
  4. ↑ official results of the central election commission