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Post by markgoodair on Oct 4, 2014 22:53:36 GMT
Latvia elects a new Parliament on Sunday.
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Post by Devonian on Oct 5, 2014 8:39:34 GMT
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#Latvia election result in seats:
Harmony 25
Unity 23
Greens/Farmers 21
VL-TB/LNNK 17
For Latvia From the Heart 7
Regional Alliance 7
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Post by Devonian on Oct 5, 2014 8:40:15 GMT
Latvia elects a new Parliament on Sunday. Election was yesterday |
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Post by right on Oct 5, 2014 9:15:04 GMT
electionista @electionista #Latvia election result in seats: Harmony 25 Unity 23 Greens/Farmers 21 VL-TB/LNNK 17 For Latvia From the Heart 7 Regional Alliance 7 From Wikipedia (only the first three parties seem to map to the list) List of political parties in Latvia
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Post by Devonian on Oct 5, 2014 9:28:54 GMT
electionista @electionista #Latvia election result in seats: Harmony 25 Unity 23 Greens/Farmers 21 VL-TB/LNNK 17 For Latvia From the Heart 7 Regional Alliance 7 From Wikipedia (only the first three parties seem to map to the list) List of political parties in Latvia
It seems VL-TB/LNNK is now known as National Alliance. The other two are apparently new parties. |
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Post by right on Oct 5, 2014 17:43:45 GMT
electionista @electionista #Latvia election result in seats: Harmony 25 Unity 23 Greens/Farmers 21 VL-TB/LNNK 17 For Latvia From the Heart 7 Regional Alliance 7 So looking at their EP affiliations, again from Wikipedia - Harmony - European United Left–Nordic Green Left (this party is the main successor of the ex-Communists) Unity - European People's Party Union of Greens and Farmers - Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy VL-TB/LNNK (National Alliance) - European Conservatives and Reformists I don't know where the other two fit in, although For Latvia from the Heart may be the centre-right Latvia first party and the Regional Alliance may be a more overtly pro-Russian party than the ex-Communist Harmony. The press are saying that the three main centre-right parties won, as they were already in a governing coalition. Eastern European parties are harder to map to British models. It seems like the UKIP aligned party is considerably less right wing than the Tory and Christian Democratic parties, a bit like the Nordic model where the rural interests are more economically left wing while at the same time more Eurosceptic than the mainstream Conservative parties. The National Alliance seems to be a weird Freedom Party mix of ethno-nationalists and economic liberals. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2014 18:41:05 GMT
How do Greens and Farmers end up in the same party??? Subsidies. |
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Post by right on Oct 5, 2014 18:53:56 GMT
How do Greens and Farmers end up in the same party??? You forgot UKIP in the mix as well. It seems that they are closer to an Agrarian party rather than a lobby group for agri-business or a Deep Green party. They want to keep small, more environmentally friendly farms and rural communities. There are similar groups in Sweden and Norway. They also tend to be more eurosceptic (again like the Nordic parties). I think the True Finns come from a similar background. |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Oct 6, 2014 10:40:00 GMT
electionista @electionista #Latvia election result in seats: Harmony 25 Unity 23 Greens/Farmers 21 VL-TB/LNNK 17 For Latvia From the Heart 7 Regional Alliance 7 So looking at their EP affiliations, again from Wikipedia - Harmony - European United Left–Nordic Green Left (this party is the main successor of the ex-Communists) Unity - European People's Party Union of Greens and Farmers - Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy VL-TB/LNNK (National Alliance) - European Conservatives and Reformists I don't know where the other two fit in, although For Latvia from the Heart may be the centre-right Latvia first party and the Regional Alliance may be a more overtly pro-Russian party than the ex-Communist Harmony. The press are saying that the three main centre-right parties won, as they were already in a governing coalition. Eastern European parties are harder to map to British models. It seems like the UKIP aligned party is considerably less right wing than the Tory and Christian Democratic parties, a bit like the Nordic model where the rural interests are more economically left wing while at the same time more Eurosceptic than the mainstream Conservative parties. The National Alliance seems to be a weird Freedom Party mix of ethno-nationalists and economic liberals. According to US Election Atlas (read the whole thread, it takes a while for them to figure it out), Latvia from the Heart seems to have some Russian supporters, whilst the Regional Alliance is a hodge-podge of localist outfits. |
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Post by right on Oct 7, 2014 22:39:24 GMT
And some more analysis from an expat in RigaWhat's not being looked at is whether the Latvians are outright opponents of EU reform like France, broadly sympathetic to Germany or quiet supporters of reform like Sweden or the Netherlands. I think they're in the German bloc but they don't seem to be as loud about it as the Lithuanians or Polish.
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Post by therealriga on Oct 8, 2014 16:42:01 GMT
electionista @electionista #Latvia election result in seats: Harmony 25 Unity 23 Greens/Farmers 21 VL-TB/LNNK 17 For Latvia From the Heart 7 Regional Alliance 7 So looking at their EP affiliations, again from Wikipedia - Harmony - European United Left–Nordic Green Left (this party is the main successor of the ex-Communists) Unity - European People's Party Union of Greens and Farmers - Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy VL-TB/LNNK (National Alliance) - European Conservatives and Reformists I don't know where the other two fit in, although For Latvia from the Heart may be the centre-right Latvia first party and the Regional Alliance may be a more overtly pro-Russian party than the ex-Communist Harmony. The press are saying that the three main centre-right parties won, as they were already in a governing coalition. Eastern European parties are harder to map to British models. It seems like the UKIP aligned party is considerably less right wing than the Tory and Christian Democratic parties, a bit like the Nordic model where the rural interests are more economically left wing while at the same time more Eurosceptic than the mainstream Conservative parties. The National Alliance seems to be a weird Freedom Party mix of ethno-nationalists and economic liberals. I wrote the blog post before this post, where you'll find some basic outlines of the parties who stood. Briefly, Harmony is NOT the main successor of the ex-communists. The Latvian Russian Union (formerly For Human Rights in a United Latvia) would be much closer to that description: unambiguously pro-Kremlin and supporting the restoration of Russian as a state language (Harmony only want to give it official status in municipalities where the majority are Russian.)
Greens and Farmers are much more of the latter than the former.
National Alliance has some people who, had they been born in the UK, would quite happily fit into UKIP or, worse, the BNP, but they also have a more mainstream conservative wing pushing economically right wing policies.
For Latvia from the Heart was very slightly left of centre and more pragmatic on the citizenship issue than the other Latvian parties. It has no connections to Latvia first party, the closest successor to that in these elections would have been United for Latvia.
Regional Alliance aren't pro-Russian in any way, their main thing is the strengthening of regional infrastructure, which can be really shabby the further you get from Riga. Their manifesto also contained some more right wing policies, increasing defence spending and opposition to gay marriage.
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Post by right on Oct 8, 2014 20:18:26 GMT
So looking at their EP affiliations, again from Wikipedia - Harmony - European United Left–Nordic Green Left (this party is the main successor of the ex-Communists) Unity - European People's Party Union of Greens and Farmers - Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy VL-TB/LNNK (National Alliance) - European Conservatives and Reformists I don't know where the other two fit in, although For Latvia from the Heart may be the centre-right Latvia first party and the Regional Alliance may be a more overtly pro-Russian party than the ex-Communist Harmony. The press are saying that the three main centre-right parties won, as they were already in a governing coalition. Eastern European parties are harder to map to British models. It seems like the UKIP aligned party is considerably less right wing than the Tory and Christian Democratic parties, a bit like the Nordic model where the rural interests are more economically left wing while at the same time more Eurosceptic than the mainstream Conservative parties. The National Alliance seems to be a weird Freedom Party mix of ethno-nationalists and economic liberals. I wrote the blog post before this post, where you'll find some basic outlines of the parties who stood. Briefly, Harmony is NOT the main successor of the ex-communists. The Latvian Russian Union (formerly For Human Rights in a United Latvia) would be much closer to that description: unambiguously pro-Kremlin and supporting the restoration of Russian as a state language (Harmony only want to give it official status in municipalities where the majority are Russian.)
Greens and Farmers are much more of the latter than the former.
National Alliance has some people who, had they been born in the UK, would quite happily fit into UKIP or, worse, the BNP, but they also have a more mainstream conservative wing pushing economically right wing policies.
For Latvia from the Heart was very slightly left of centre and more pragmatic on the citizenship issue than the other Latvian parties. It has no connections to Latvia first party, the closest successor to that in these elections would have been United for Latvia.
Regional Alliance aren't pro-Russian in any way, their main thing is the strengthening of regional infrastructure, which can be really shabby the further you get from Riga. Their manifesto also contained some more right wing policies, increasing defence spending and opposition to gay marriage.
Welcome to the forum and it's great to have an expert on the ground. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Looking at Wikipedia, with the inevitable caveats, Harmony seems to include the Socialist Party of Latvia which still adheres to a fairly hardline Communist view although on the whole it seems to be dominated by the leftist leaning bits of the Popular Front. How does that work? Are the Socialists a minority that is tolerated for their ability to deliver a bedrock vote? Also why does Harmony sit with the Communists in the European Parliament? I thought that this would be poison in a post-Soviet republic even among a lot of Russian speakers. It seems that it's probably going to be harder to explain to someone who's been in a two and a half party state for most of his life. Welcome again to the forum. |
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Post by therealriga on Oct 9, 2014 7:47:38 GMT
I'm a little confused. Harmony doesn't sit with the Green-Left group in the European Parliament, they sit in the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, the same one that includes the British and Irish Labour parties. They have observer status with the party of European Socialists, which the German SPD are in.
The Socialist Party were a minority in the former Harmony Centre alliance and the social democratic side dominated. I think that was a factor in Harmony Centre breaking up earlier this year. Social Democratic Party "Harmony" contested these elections in their own right, while the Socialist Party didn't contest the election.
Coming from Northern Ireland myself, I find the party system here a bit of a nightmare to keep up with in comparison to the UK or Ireland, as politicians are forever forming new alignments. |
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Post by Georg Ebner on May 12, 2019 16:36:21 GMT
No "GE", still - the president will be elected.
According to OpinionPolls the female candidate of the so-called "ChristDemocrats" should make it into the RunOff, followed by an independent. Third and probably chanceless is the man of the ruling party (pseudoGREENS/agrarians around an oligarch).
The exCommies are at 5.5%...
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Post by Georg Ebner on May 13, 2019 0:13:26 GMT
99.?% done.
55.55% participation (long queues only at the embassy in London!)
31% Mr. Indep.
29.5% Mrs. "ChristDemocrat"
20.7% Mr. PrimeMinister
The governing party will prefer the non-partisan candidate, i assume.
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Post by CatholicLeft on May 13, 2019 9:18:35 GMT
99.?% done. 55.55% participation (long queues only at the embassy in London!) 31% Mr. Indep. 29.5% Mrs. "ChristDemocrat" 20.7% Mr. PrimeMinister The governing party will prefer the non-partisan candidate, i assume. Shouldn't this be in the Lithuanian thread? |
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Post by Georg Ebner on May 13, 2019 18:40:20 GMT
99.?% done. 55.55% participation (long queues only at the embassy in London!) 31% Mr. Indep. 29.5% Mrs. "ChristDemocrat" 20.7% Mr. PrimeMinister The governing party will prefer the non-partisan candidate, i assume. Shouldn't this be in the Lithuanian thread? Yes. Sorry. |
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