Society for Political Change
Society for Political Change Sabiedrība citai politikai | |
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| Leader | Aigars Štokenbergs |
| Founded | 6 September 2008 |
| Dissolved | 6 August 2011 |
| Split from | People's Party[1] |
| Merged into | Unity |
| Headquarters | 8 Audēju street, Riga |
| Ideology | Social liberalism[2] |
| Political position | Centre-left[3] |
| Colours | Red |
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| http://www.scp.lv/ | |
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The Society for Political Change (Latvian: Sabiedrība citai politikai, SCP) was a social-liberal[4] political party in Latvia founded on 6 September 2008. Its members include two former ministers, former foreign minister Artis Pabriks and former economics minister Aigars Štokenbergs; its first president was economist Gatis Kokins.[5]
The SCP ran as part of the Unity rainbow alliance in the 2010 Latvian parliamentary election to the Saeima. The party won six seats, out of the list's total of 33. After the election, the SCP demanded that the right-wing National Alliance,[6] which includes previous coalition partners For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK, be excluded from the new government, which included Unity and the Union of Greens and Farmers.[7]
On 6 March 2011, it voted to merge with New Era Party and Civic Union to form the new political party Unity.[1]
References
- 1 2 Uldis Ozoliņš (11 January 2011). "2010 was turning point in Latvian politics". Latvians Online.
Such a consolidation of parties was also achieved elsewhere. In March the three groupings closest to Dombrovskis' government joined forces to form Unity (Vienotība). This was a combination of New Era (Jaunais laiks), its breakaway Citizens' Union (Pilsoniskā savienība), and the Society for A Different Politics (Sabiedrība citai politikai)—itself a breakaway from the People's Party.
- ↑ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2011). "Latvia". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26.
- ↑ Hanspeter Kriesi; Swen Hutter, eds. (2019). European Party Politics in Times of Crisis. Cambridge University Press. p. 246. ISBN 978-1-108-48379-7.
Finally, in 2010 New Era merged with the nationalist Civic Union and the economically centre-left Society for Political Change to form Unity 31.9 percent of the vote in the 2010 election (up from New Era's 16.4 percent in 2006).
- ↑ Daniele Caramani (2013). The Europeanization of Politics. Cambridge University Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-1-107-11867-6.
- ↑ "Ex-Minister gründeten sozialliberale Partei". Der Standard (in German). 8 September 2008.
- ↑ "Latvia PM party has fresh doubts over 3-party govt". Reuters. 25 October 2010.
- ↑ Eglitis, Aaron (25 October 2010). "Latvia to Form Two-Party Government as Nationalists Left Out". Bloomberg.
