Society for Other Politics

The Society for Political Change , abbreviated to SCP, was a social liberal political party in Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

 founded on 6 September 2008. Its members include two former ministers, former foreign minister Artis Pabriks

Artis Pabriks

Artis Pabriks is a Latvian politician, a former Foreign Minister of Latvia and the current Minister of Defence of Latvia....

 and former economics minister Aigars Štokenbergs

Aigars Štokenbergs

Aigars Štokenbergs is a Latvian politician, member of the Society for Other Politics party and the incumbent Minister of Justice of Latvia since 3 November 2010...

; its first president was economist Gatis Kokins.

The SCP ran as part of the Unity

Unity (Latvia)

Unity is a Latvian centre-right political party, founded as an electoral alliance of the New Era Party, the Civic Union and the Society for Other Politics on 6 March 2010...

 rainbow party alliance in the 2010 election to the Saeima

Saeima

Saeima is the parliament of the Republic of 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. Elections are scheduled to be held once every four years,...

. The party won six seats, out of the list's total of 33. After the election, the SCP demanded that the right-wing

Right-wing politics

In politics, Right, right-wing and rightist generally refer to support for a hierarchical society justified on the basis of an appeal to natural law or tradition. To varying degrees, the Right rejects the egalitarian objectives of left-wing politics, claiming that the imposition of equality is...

 National Alliance

National Alliance (Latvia)

The National Alliance, officially the National Alliance "All For Latvia!" – "For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK" , abbreviated to NA, is a right-wing political party in Latvia. With fourteen seats in the Saeima, the National Alliance is the fourth-largest party in the legislature...

, which includes previous coalition partners For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK, be excluded from the new government, which includes Unity

Unity (Latvia)

Unity is a Latvian centre-right political party, founded as an electoral alliance of the New Era Party, the Civic Union and the Society for Other Politics on 6 March 2010...

 and the Union of Greens and Farmers

Union of Greens and Farmers

Union of Greens and Farmers is a green/agrarian and conservative political alliance in Latvia. It consists of two political parties: Latvian Farmers' Union and the Green Party of Latvia . It is the third-largest party in the Saeima....

.

On 6 August 2011, it merged with two other parties to form the new political party Unity

Unity (Latvia)

Unity is a Latvian centre-right political party, founded as an electoral alliance of the New Era Party, the Civic Union and the Society for Other Politics on 6 March 2010...

.