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National Alliance
Nacionālā Apvienība
Co-chairmen Gaidis Bērziņš and
Raivis DzintarsFounded 2010 (alliance)
23 July 2011 (party)Merger of All For Latvia! and TB/LNNK Headquarters Riga Ideology Conservatism
Latvian nationalism
Economic liberalism[1]Political position Right-wing[2][3][4] European affiliation Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (TB/LNNK) European Parliament Group European Conservatives and Reformists (TB/LNNK) Official colours Maroon and gold Saeima 14 / 100European Parliament 1 / 8Website visulatvijaidodu.lv Politics of Latvia
Political parties
ElectionsThe National Alliance, officially the National Alliance "All For Latvia!" – "For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK" (Latvian: Nacionālā apvienība „Visu Latvijai!” – „Tēvzemei un Brīvībai/LNNK”), abbreviated to NA, is a right-wing political party in Latvia. With fourteen seats in the Saeima, the National Alliance is the fourth-largest party in the legislature. The party is a coalition of conservatives, Latvian ethnonationalists, and economic liberals.[1][5]
Formed as an electoral alliance for the 2010 election, the National Alliance brought together For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK and All for Latvia!. It won eight seats, placing it fourth amongst all parties. It formed into a formalised political party in July 2011 under the leadership of Gaidis Bērziņš and Raivis Dzintars. In the September 2011 election, it increased its seats to fourteen, and it entered a centre-right coalition, along with Zatlers' Reform Party and Unity, under Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis.[6]
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History
It was founded as an electoral alliance in 2010 by national-conservative For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK and far right All For Latvia! after the two parties were refused entry into the Unity alliance.[7][8] The loose alliance was transformed into a unitary party on 23 July 2011.[9] In the 2010 election to the Saeima, the alliance won 8 seats.[2] As part of the outgoing government it was involved in negotiations after the election to renew the coalition, but was vetoed by the Society for Other Politics,[2] which had not been part of the government but had joined the Unity alliance.
In May 2011, the party supported the re-election of Valdis Zatlers as President of Latvia in the 2011 election.[10] The alliance became a single united party on 23 July 2011. At the 2011 parliamentary election, the National Alliance won fourteen seats – an increase of six on the previous year – making it the fourth-largest party. After extensive negotiations, it joined a centre-right government with Unity and Zatlers' Reform Party, with the party's Gaidis Bērziņš as Minister for Justice and Žaneta Jaunzeme-Grende as Minister for Culture.
Election results
Election Votes Vote % Seats Place 2010 74,028 7.7 8 4th 2011 127,208 
13.9 14 4th References
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- ^ "Supporters line up behind Zatlers". The Baltic Times. 18 May 2011. http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/28698/. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
External links
- (Latvian) National Alliance official website
Political parties in Latvia 
Saeima
(100 seats):Harmony Centre (Social Democratic Party "Harmony" – Socialist Party of Latvia) 31 seats • Unity 20 seats • Zatlers' Reform Party 16 seats • National Alliance 14 seats • Union of Greens and Farmers (Latvian Farmers' Union – Latvian Green Party) 13 seatsEuropean Parliament
(9 seats out of 751):Unity (EPP 3) • Harmony Centre (S&D 1 – GUE/NGL 1) • For Human Rights in United Latvia (Greens-EFA 1) • Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way (ALDE 1) • National Alliance (ECR 1)Other parties Portal:Politics – List of political parties – Politics of Latvia Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists 
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