Social:All for Latvia!
All for Latvia Visu Latvijai! | |
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| File:FlagVisuLatvijai.svg | |
| Leader | Joint leadership of Imants Parādnieks Raivis Dzintars[1] |
| Founded | 14 January 2006 |
| Dissolved | 23 July 2011 |
| Merged into | National Alliance |
| Headquarters | Riga |
| Ideology | Latvian nationalism[2] |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Colours | Maroon |
| Website | |
| visulatvijai | |
All for Latvia! (Latvian: Visu Latvijai!) was a far-right[3] ethnic nationalist[1] political party in Latvia led by Raivis Dzintars and Imants Parādnieks. Formed in 2000, it entered a right-wing nationalist coalition in 2010, and ultimately merged with the For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK in 2011 to form the National Alliance.
History
All for Latvia! started in 2000 as a non-formal Latvian youth group with a nationalist disposition and became a social organization in 2002.[1]
The organization became a political party in January 2006.[1] For the 2010 elections for the Saeima, All for Latvia! joined forces in the National Alliance with the more established national conservative party For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK to field a common list of candidates.[4] At the election, the list won eight seats, six of them for All for Latvia!. Unity invited the electoral alliance of All for Latvia! and For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK to join the coalition, but the offer was withdrawn a few says later after Society for Political Change, one of the parties making up Unity, vetoed such option.[5]
On 23 July 2011, the For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK Party and All for Latvia! merged to form the National Alliance.[6]
In April 2013, All for Latvia! officially established cooperation ties with the Russian National Democratic Alliance.[7]
Ideology
Latvian political scientist Nils Muižnieks described All for Latvia! as racist in 2005.[8] In April 2013, MEP from Harmony Centre Alexander Mirsky was found guilty by Riga District Court and ordered to pay damages to All for Latvia! and other National Alliance members for defamation by calling them "fascists".[9]
Election results
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– | Government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 13,469 | 1.5 (#10) | 0 / 100
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "History of All for Latvia! (Visu Latvijai!)". All for Latvia!. https://www.nacionalaapvieniba.lv/valodas/history-of-all-for-latvia-visu-latvijai/.
- ↑ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2010). "Latvia". http://www.parties-and-elections.de/latvia.html.
- ↑ Greenhalgh, Nathan (31 May 2010). "Unity forgoes merging with far-right". Baltic Reports. http://balticreports.com/?p=18512.
- ↑ "Cvk". https://www.cvk.lv/cgi-bin/wdbcgiw/base/komisijas2010.CVKAND10.kandid2?nr1=10.
- ↑ Strautmanis, Andris (25 October 2010). "Veto ousts nationalists from new government; 2 parties remain in talks". Latvians Online. https://latviansonline.com/veto-ousts-nationalists-from-new-government-2-parties-remain-in-talks/.
- ↑ "Latvian political parties undergo major upheaval". The Baltic Times. 12 July 2011. http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/29032/.
- ↑ "Latvian Nationalists of All for Latvia! make friends with Nationalists in Russia." (in Russian). ves.lv. 2 April 2013. http://www.ves.lv/article/240836.
- ↑ Nils Muižnieks. Latvia. In: Racist extremism in Central and Eastern Europe. Ed. C. Mudde. Routledge, 2005. ISBN 0-415-35593-1 – p. 107
- ↑ "Mirsky will have to pay 500 Lats to each of the leaders of the VL-TB/LNNK for offending them." (in Russian). ves.lv. 3 April 2013. http://www.ves.lv/article/240866.
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