Saskaņas Centrs

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Saskaņas Centrs
Center of Harmony
Harmony Center logo
Party leader Nils Ušakovs
Party leader Nils Usakovs
founding 2005
resolution 2014
Alignment Social Democracy , Democratic Socialism
Colours) red
EP Group S&D , GUE-NGL
Website www.saskanascentrs.lv

Saskaņas Centrs ( SC ; German  Center of Harmony ; Russian Центр согласия ) was an alliance of political parties in Latvia . It consisted of the Sociāldemokrātiskā partija "Saskaņa" , a social democratic party, and the Latvijas Sociālistiskā partija , a party with a socialist orientation.

history

Saskaņas Centrs was formed in 2005 from the parties Tautas Saskaņas Partija , Latvijas Sociālistiskā Partija and Jaunais Centrs , of which the first two had previously belonged to the alliance Par Cilvēka Tiesībām Vienotā Latvijā . In January 2009, the Sociāldemokrātu Savienība also joined the SC. The first chairman of the Saskaņas Centrs was Sergejs Dolgopolovs , who was replaced by Nils Ušakovs in autumn 2005 . By January 2011, several participating parties merged to form the Saskaņa party.

In the Latvian parliamentary elections in October 2006 , in which the SC ran for the first time, it achieved 17 out of 100 seats. It became the fourth largest group in parliament. In the European elections in Latvia in 2009 , the SC received 19.6% of the vote and two of the eight Latvian seats; it was thus the second largest party after the conservative Pilsoniskā savienība . In the 2010 parliamentary election , SC received 26.0% of the vote, making it the second strongest force in the Latvian parliament.

In the 2011 election , the alliance became the country's strongest force with 31 seats (28 for the Saskaņa and three for the Socialist Party) in parliament. For the general election in 2014 the list of Saskaņā ran with some candidates of the SP.

Positions and classification

Saskaņas Centrs advocated the increased role of the Russian language in education and public administration in Latvia. It called for a reform of citizenship law to allow Latvian citizenship to a larger part of the country's Russian-speaking population . The SC described itself as "the only political party in Latvia in which ethnic Latvians and Russian speakers work together"; however, most of its MPs are members of the Russian-speaking community of Latvia. The SC also advocated traditionally left-wing positions, such as the expansion of the Latvian welfare state. At the European level it had not joined any European party ; the two MEPs split between the social democratic group S&D and the socialist-post-communist GUE-NGL .

Election results

Results in the parliamentary elections
year be right proportion of Mandates space
2006 130,887 14.4%
17/100
1 		4th
2010 251.397 26.6%
29/100
2 		2.
2011 259.930 28.4%
31/100
3 		1.
Results in the European elections
year be right proportion of Mandates space
2009 154,894 19.6%
2/8
4th 		2.
2As an electoral alliance consisting of the Social Democratic Party “Harmony” (24 seats), the Socialist Party of Latvia (four seats) and the Dunkirk Citizens' Alliance (one seat).
3 As an electoral alliance consisting of the Social Democratic Party “Harmony” (28 seats) and the Socialist Party of Latvia (three seats).
4th As an electoral alliance consisting of the Social Democratic Party “Harmony” (one mandate) and the Socialist Party of Latvia (one mandate).


Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Saskaņā" Savā sarakstā Saeimas vēlēšanās aicinās dažus Sociālistiskās partijas biedrus retrieved (Latvian) on August 10, 2014.