The Party for Peace and Order was a conservative 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 ...

during the inter-war period.

History

The party was established in 1925,Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p456 and won two seats in the second Saima in the 1925 elections. It was reduced to a single seat in the 1928 elections, which it retained in the 1931 elections for the fourth Saeima.

Ideology

The party held similar views to the

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in neighbouring

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, supporting a classical capitalist economic policy and advocating private property rights.McHale, p384 It usually sat in the

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alongside the National Union and

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and some Latgalian parties, in a grouping known as the "National Bloc".

References

{{Latvian political parties Conservative parties in Latvia Defunct political parties in Latvia Political parties established in 1925