Development/For! ( Latvian: ''Attīstībai/Par!,'' AP!) was a liberal

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. It was formed in 2018 and was composed of

Movement For! Movement For! () is a liberal political party in Latvia.For Latvia's Development For Latvia's Development (, abbr. LA) is a classical liberal political party in Latvia. It is positioned on the centre-right on the political spectrum. From 2018 to 2022 it was one of the members of the Development/For! alliance, before it ''de ...

(LA) and

Izaugsme Growth () is a centrist political party in Latvia Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the ...

. The alliance embraced a

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position, and was variously described as

social-liberal Social liberalism is a political philosophy and variety of liberalism that endorses social justice, social services, a mixed economy, and the expansion of civil and political rights, as opposed to classical liberalism which favors limited ...

Reģistrējoties teju 300 biedriem nodibina partiju Kustība Par!
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views. It is orientated towards

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, and it states "a modern and just Latvia within a united Europe" as its main goal. The two main components of the alliance, LA and Par, are both member parties of the

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(ALDE) party. The alliance was led by its co-chairmen,

Daniels Pavļuts Daniels Pavļuts (born 14 May 1976 in Jūrmala, Latvia) is a Latvian politician and former Minister for Health of Latvia from January 2021 to December 2022. He was formerly the Ministry of Economics (Latvia), Minister for Economics of Latvia, a po ...

, member of

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and the leader of Par, and

Juris Pūce Juris Pūce (born 22 January 1980, in Riga) is a Latvian economist, lawyer, and politician. Former Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of Latvia in the government of Krisjanis Karins and chairman of the board of the ...

, Minister for Environmental Protection and Regional Development and the leader of LA. In the 2018 parliamentary election it placed fourth by winning 13 seats in Saeima. From January 2019 the alliance participated in the

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, holding seven ministerial positions including

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's being appointed Deputy Prime Minister. In the

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, the alliance received one of the eight seats allocated to Latvia, with the frontrunner of the list,

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Ivars Ijabs Ivars Ijabs (born 17 November 1972) is a Latvian political scientist and politician. He is a lecturer and professor at the University of Latvia and holds a PhD in political science. In May 2019, representing political alliance Development/For!, ...

being elected. Ijabs was at that time not a member of any of the parties making up the alliance, although he announced that he would represent the ALDE party. Ijabs as well as deputy prime minister and defence minister

joined For Latvia's Development in October 2019. In the 2020 Riga City Council snap election, the alliance ran on a common electoral list with the centre-left

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, which won the election with 26 percent of the vote and received 18 seats, seven of which were won by AP! candidates from all parties except Growth. Movement For! member

Mārtiņš Staķis Mārtiņš Staķis (born 4 July 1979) is a Latvian politician and businessman, Mayor of Riga from 2020 to 2023. He served as a Deputy (legislator), deputy of the 13th Saeima, the Latvian parliament, until he resigned on 5 June 2020. On 29 August ...

became mayor until his resignation in 2023. Gradually, years of being in government – both on a national and municipal scale – in the midst of a pandemic and cabinet infighting eroded much of the alliance’s voter base, as one author puts it. After disappointing results from the 2022 parliamentary election, in which the alliance failed to return its parliamentary seats, the alliance was technically dissolved, though it remains registered to maintain state funding under the legal name of PLI (an abbreviation of the initials of the names of the former constituent parties).

Members

Election results

Legislative elections

European Parliament

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