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Latvian Socialist Party
The Socialist Party of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Sociālistiskā partija, abbr. LSP; russian: Социалистическая партия Латвии) is a communist party in Latvia. It is positioned on the far-left on the political spectrum. It was formed in 1994 as a successor party to the Communist Party of Latvia, which was banned in 1991. According to the "programme of the party", the LSP was founded as an organization upholding socialist ideas after the 1991 events that the party describes as a "counter-revolutionary bourgeois-nationalist coup". Overview The current CEOs of the party are Bokišs Fridijs, Burlaks Ingars and Frolovs Vladimirs. Between 1999 and 2015, the position was held by Alfrēds Rubiks, once mayor of Riga 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. He is not one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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