The Latgalian Farmer-Labour Party, also known as the Latgalian Progressive Farmers, was a political party in

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during the inter-war period. The party contested elections in an alliance with several other parties under the name United List of Latgalian Small Landless Farmers and Latgalian Labour Party.

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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1130 It was led by Jezups Trasuns.

History

The party first contested national elections in 1922, when it won four seats in the

parliamentary elections A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

that year. It was reduced to two seats in

2nd Saeima 2nd Saeima was the parliament of Latvia from November 3, 1925, until November 5, 1928. The Social Democrat Pauls Kalniņš continued to hold the post of Speaker of the Saeima to which he was first elected during the 1st Saeima. 2nd Saeima gav ...

after 1925 elections, but won three seats in the 1928 elections. The 1931 elections saw the party win five seats in the

4th Saeima 4th Saeima was the parliament of Latvia from 3 November 1931 until the 15 May 1934 Latvian coup d'état. It was the last democratically elected Saeima until the restoration of Latvia’s independence in 1991 and the 5th Saeima elections in 1993. ...

Ideology

The party supported radical land reform, including land distribution without compensation for former landowners. Like other parties in

Latgale Latgale ( ltg, Latgola; ; ger, Lettgallen; be, Латгалія, Łathalija; pl, Łatgalia; la, Lettgallia), also known as Latgalia is one of the Historical Latvian Lands. It is the easternmost region and is north of the Daugava River. While m ...

, it took an anti-

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stance.Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p449

References

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