Socialist Party of Latvia

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Socialist Party of Latvia

The Socialist Party of Latvia (), LSP, was formed in 1994 in response to the banning of the Communist party

Communist party

A political party described as a communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government....
after the collapse of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
. In its essence, the party is Socialist.

The current president of the party is Alfreds Rubiks

Alfreds Rubiks

Alfreds Rubiks is a Latvian people politician. He served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Riga City Soviet from 1984 to 1990, and is commonly referred to as the last Communist Mayor of Riga....
, once mayor of Riga

Riga

Riga the Capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the river Daugava River. Riga is the largest city in the Baltic states....
and later leader of the unionist movement and head of the Latvian Communist Party (CPSU platform). He was imprisoned for six years in 1991 on charges of participating in a coup-d'état against the Latvian authorities in August 1991.

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The Socialist Party of Latvia (), LSP, was formed in 1994 in response to the banning of the Communist party

Communist party

Soviet Union

Alfreds Rubiks

Riga

Saeima

Saeima is the parliament of the Latvia. It is a unicameral parliament consisting of 100 members who are elected by proportional representation, with seats allocated to political parties which gain at least 5% of the popular vote....
(Latvian Parliament) since he is not allowed to contest elections. However, his son Arturs Rubiks is a member of Saeima, representing the Socialist Party.

The Socialist Party is more popular among the Russian-speaking

Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
population of Latvia. It places a high priority on issues important to ethnic Russians

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavs ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.The English language term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity ; in Russian language, the demonym Russian is translated as Rossiyanin ....
, such as language and citizenship laws. The party also believes that Latvian citizenship should be open to all people who were citizens of Latvia in 1990. This would entail a major change in the current law which only gives automatic citizenship to descendants of people who lived in Latvia before it was incorporated into the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
in 1940 and requires Russians who moved to Latvia between 1940 and 1990 to go through a naturalization

Naturalization

Naturalization is the acquisition of citizenship or nationality by somebody who was not a citizen or national of that country when he or she was born....
process.

In the election

Elections in Latvia

Elections in Latvia gives information on election and election results in politics of Latvia.Latvia elects on national level a legislature. The Saeima has 100 members, elected for a four year term by proportional representation with a 5% threshold....
, on 5 October 2002, the party was part of the For Human Rights in United Latvia

For Human Rights in United Latvia

For Human Rights in United Latvia is a left-wing, Green politics, political party in Latvia, supported mainly by ethnic Russians and other non-Latvian minorities....
coalition that won 19.0% of the popular vote and 25 out of 100 seats. (5 of those seats went to Socialist Party.) The party was a member of this alliance of predominantly Russian-speaking parties from 1998 to 2003.

Today, the party's platform is centered on anti-corruption and promoting an independent Latvia that is free from EU

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
centralised power. In 2005, the LSP entered the "Harmony Centre

Harmony Centre

The Harmony Centre In the October 2006 elections, the party won 17 of 100 seats. It became the fourth largest party in Parliament and the second largest opposition party....
" coalition, which won 17 seats in the 2006 election. 4 of these 17 parliament members are representatives of the Socialist Party.

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(in Latvian and Russian)