National Alliance Nacionālā apvienība | |
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Abbreviation | NA |
Chairman | Raivis Dzintars |
Founder | Roberts Zīle |
Founded | 4 July 2010[1] (electoral alliance) 23 July 2011 (party) |
Merger of | |
Headquarters | 3rd floor, 11 Kaļķu Street, Riga LV-1050 |
Newspaper | Nacionālā Neatkarība |
Youth wing | Nacionālās apvienības jauniešu organizācija[2] |
Membership (2017) | 1,094[3] |
Ideology | |
Political position | Right-wing |
European affiliation | European Conservatives and Reformists Party |
European Parliament group | European Conservatives and Reformists |
Colours |
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Saeima | 13 / 100 |
European Parliament | 2 / 8 |
Government of Latvia | 0 / 14 |
Riga City Council | 5 / 60 |
Mayors | 5 / 43 |
Website | |
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The National Alliance (Latvian: Nacionālā apvienība, NA), officially the National Alliance "All for Latvia!" – "For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK" (Latvian: Nacionālā apvienība "Visu Latvijai!" – "Tēvzemei un Brīvībai"/LNNK), is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Latvia. A right-wing party, it has also been placed as a part of the radical right on the political spectrum.
It was formed as an electoral alliance for the 2010 Latvian parliamentary election between the For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK and All for Latvia! parties. It won eight seats, placing it fourth among all parties. In July 2011, it merged into a single political party under the leadership of Gaidis Bērziņš and Raivis Dzintars. In the 2014 Latvian parliamentary election, it again increased its seats to seventeen, and entered a centre-right coalition, along with Unity and the Union of Greens and Farmers under Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma.
It has participated in every government of Latvia from the 2011 Latvian parliamentary election until the Siliņa cabinet to prevent Harmony Centre from leading the coalition. It is also a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR) and its two MEPs, Roberts Zīle and Ansis Pūpols, sit in the ECR group in the European Parliament. The party controls the town and city governments of Ogre, Bauska, Smiltene, Sigulda, and Talsi.