All for Latvia! ( lv, Visu Latvijai!) was a

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political party in

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

led by

Raivis Dzintars Raivis Dzintars (born 25 November 1982) is a Latvian right-wing politician and chairman of the national-conservative National Alliance party. He has previously served as the party's co-chairman alongside Gaidis Bērziņš. Born in Riga, he ...

and . Formed in 2000, it entered a

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coalition in 2010, and ultimately merged with the

For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK ( lv, Tēvzemei un Brīvībai/LNNK, abbreviated to TB/LNNK) was a free-market, national conservative political party in Latvia. In 2011, it dissolved and merged into the National Alliance. The party was founded ...

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. The organization became a political party in January 2006. For the 2010 elections for the

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, All for Latvia! joined forces in the National Alliance with the more established

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party

to field a common list of candidates. At the election, the list won eight seats, six of them for All for Latvia!.

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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 and For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK to join the coalition, but the offer was withdrawn a few says later after

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, one of the parties making up Unity, vetoed such option. On 23 July 2011, the For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK Party and All for Latvia! merged to form the National Alliance. In April 2013, All for Latvia! officially established cooperation ties with the Russian

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Ideology

All for Latvia! supported making Latvian citizenship laws more restrictive, by introducing strict limits on the number of people who can be

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into Latvian citizenship in one year. All for Latvia! wanted to increase the percentage of ethnic Latvians in the country to at least 75%, by providing financial support to other ethnicities who would like to leave the country and ethnic Latvians from abroad who would like to return to Latvia. All for Latvia! supported a greater role for the Latvian language and proposed to make it the only language of instruction in publicly funded primary and secondary schools, starting from 2015. The party was opposed to

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. All for Latvia! supported protectionist economic policies to increase the role of locally owned businesses. It was supportive of the traditional family, opposed to

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and favours more restrictive regulation of

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sales. It believed that the common interests of the nation have a higher value than the interests of individual people. Latvian political scientist

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described All for Latvia! as racist in 2005.

Latvia
In: Racist extremism in Central and Eastern Europe. Ed. C. Mudde. Routledge, 2005. – p. 107 In April 2013, MEP from

Harmony Centre ;russian: Достойная жизнь для каждого) , website saskanascentrs.lv Harmony Centre ( lv, Saskaņas Centrs, SC; russian: Центр Cогласия, ЦC) was a social-democratic political alliance in Latvia. It origi ...

Alexander Mirsky Alexander Tomasovich Mirsky (russian: Александр Томасович Мирский, lv, Aleksandrs Mirskis; born 20 March 1964) is a Latvian politician of Russian and Jewish descent. Biography Mirsky was born in Vilnius. In 1986 he ...

was found guilty by Riga District Court and ordered to pay damages to All for Latvia! and other National Alliance members for

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by calling them "fascists".

Election results

References

External links

* {{Latvian political parties Latvian nationalism All for Latvia Nationalist parties in Latvia Right-wing parties in Europe Eurosceptic parties in Latvia 2000 establishments in Latvia Political parties established in 2000