The Social Democratic Party ( lv, Sociāldemokrātiskā partija, SDP; formerly Social Democratic Union, lv, Sociāldemokrātu savienība, SDS) was a
political party
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in
Latvia
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formed by a splinter group from the
Latvian Social Democratic Labour Party (LSDSP) after the leader of the LSDSP faction in the
Saeima
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,
Egils Baldzēns, lost to
Juris Bojārs
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Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Por ...
in the elections for party chairman on 27 October 2001. The major factor in the schism was the increasing intimacy between the LSDSP and the
For Human Rights in United Latvia Bloc, considered to be excessively pro-Russian by the more nationalist members in Baldzēns' breakaway wing of the party. The newly formed SDS held its founding congress in
Riga
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on 24 March 2002. In the
2002 election, the party won 1.5% of the popular vote and no seats. The last leader of the party was
Egils Rutkovskis.
In January 2009, the party joined the
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 ...
coalition.
[ http://www.saskanascentrs.lv/index.php?text&id=39&level=1&cid=482&do=news http://www.saskanascentrs.lv/index.php?text&id=39&level=1&cid=482&do=news] It merged into the
Harmony
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party in 2010.
Election results
Legislative elections
European Parliament elections
Footnotes
External links
Official web site
Defunct political parties in Latvia
Social democratic parties in Latvia
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