For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK

Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai / LNNK ( For Fatherland and Freedom / LNNK ) from 1997 to 2011, a nationalist political party in Latvia. National Association: " Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai / LNNK " ( German - After the party had begun already in the parliamentary elections in 2010 in an election alliance with " Visu Latvijai " both parties were 23 July 2011 formally to the party Nacionālā apvieniba " Visu Latvijai! " " All for Latvia " - unites " for fatherland and Freedom / Latvian National Independence Movement ").

The name

Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai Latvia motto is comparable to unity, justice and freedom in Germany, and found, for example, as an inscription on the base of the Freedom Monument in Riga.

History

The roots of the party can be found in the Latvian independence movement of the late 1980s, particularly in the more radical parts of the movement, which called for a complete restoration of Latvian independence and insisted on the continuity of the Republic of Latvia, which they called by the Soviet occupation of 1940 only interrupted considered.

The party was founded in 1993 under the name Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai. In 1997 she united with the LNNK (Latvian National Independence Movement ) and assumed its present name.

In the 1990 Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai fought for the enforcement of strict language and citizenship laws. The party was the driving force of two attempts to tighten the Latvian citizenship laws on referendums. 1994 did not achieve the desire of the necessary number of signatures; 1998, it was with a relatively narrow majority (45% for, 52 % against) rejected. At the end of the 1990s, the party turned increasingly to economic issues after the other issues were largely dealt with.

Election results

Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai was regularly represented in the Latvian parliament Saeima since 1993, albeit with nachlassendem success: reached in the elections

Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai was from December 1995 to February 2004 and since December 2006, part of a coalition government. Guntars Krasts was 1997-1998 Latvian Prime Minister, chairman of the party 's Jānis Straume.

Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai is a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) in the European Parliament and is one of Europe party to AECR. During the election campaign for the 2004 European elections, the party showed herself as the keeper of the national interests of Latvia and opponent of a federal Europe. That earned her a 29 % of the vote and four of nine Latvian seats. In the European elections in Latvia in 2009 she came, however, only one of the eight Latvian seats.

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