Equal Rights (Latvia)
Equal Rights Līdztiesība Равноправие | |
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| Leader | Tatjana Ždanoka |
| Chairman | Vladimirs Buzajevs |
| Founders | Tatjana Ždanoka Sergejs Dīmanis |
| Founded | 30 April 1993 |
| Registered | 11 December 1996[1] |
| Dissolved | 19 October 2007[1] |
| Preceded by | Interfront[2] |
| Merged into | For Human Rights in United Latvia |
| Ideology | Russian minority politics Russophilia Euroscepticism |
| Political position | Left-wing[3][4][2] |
| National affiliation | ForHRUL (since 1998) |
| Colours | Red |
| Website | |
| pctvl.lv | |
Equal Rights (ER; Latvian: Līdztiesība, Russian: Равноправие) was a political party in Latvia, mainly supported by the Russian minority.
ER was founded on the basis of the "Equal Rights" faction of the Supreme Soviet as a NGO in 1993. The Equal Rights faction (Russian: Равноправие) had been founded in April, 1990,[5] after the 1990 Latvian parliamentary election.
The NGO transformed into a party in 1996. Its leaders were MPs Tatjana Ždanoka and Sergejs Dīmanis. The organization participated in the 1994 municipal election and the 1995 legislative election within the Socialist Party of Latvia list.
In 1998, ER joined with two other predominantly Russian parties, the Latvian Socialist Party and the National Harmony Party to found the alliance For Human Rights in United Latvia (Latvian: Par Cilvēka Tiesībām Vienotā Latvijā; ForHRUL). The alliance split in 2003, with the National Harmony Party and the Socialist Party abandoning the coalition, leaving the newly founded rump Free Choice in People's Europe (made up of dissident Socialist Party and Harmony Party members, like Yakov Pliner, who opposed the decision to quit the alliance) in the ForHRUL coalition.
From 2001 ER's leader was Tatjana Ždanoka and its chairman was Vladimir Buzayev.
In 2007, the 11th Congress of the party decided to merge it with Free Choice in People's Europe, transforming their block ForHRUL into a unified party. The party failed to win any seats in the 2010 legislative election.
Footnotes
- 1 2 https://company.lursoft.lv/lidztiesiba/40008045121
- 1 2 "Latvia's New Parliamentary Landscape". Jamestown Foundation. 10 June 1998. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
The People's Harmony bloc, with sixteen seats, is made up of the identically named party and three Russian leftist parties: the Socialist Party, successor to the Communist Party; the Ravnopravie [Equal Rights] Movement, successor to the pro-Soviet Interfront; and the Russian party.
- ↑ Sabrine P. Ramet, ed. (2010). Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989. Cambridge University Press. p. 455. ISBN 978-0-521-88810-3.
On the left wing we find a group that has always been in the Saeima since the transition to democracy: Equal Rights, which is a left party representing the heirs of those who did not wish Latvia to leave the USSR (LSP also represents such heirs).
- ↑ Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Economist Intelligence Unit. 1994. p. 73.
Latvia held its first post-communist local elections in May; a coalition between the Green Party and the right-wing and anti-Russian National Independence Movement of Latvia won the Riga elections, while the left-wing Equal Rights party, which represents Russian-speakers, won in Daugavpils, the second-largest city.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
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