For Fatherland and Freedom

For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK Tēvzemei un Brīvībai/LNNK

Leader	Roberts Zīle
Founded	TB: 1 February 1993 TB/LNNK: 21 June 1997
Dissolved	23 July 2011
Merged into	National Alliance
Headquarters	Riga
Ideology	Latvian nationalism National conservatism Economic liberalism Euroscepticism
Political position	Right-wing
European affiliation	Alliance for Europe of the Nations (2002-2009) Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (2009-2011)
International affiliation	None
European Parliament group	Union for Europe of the Nations (2004-2009) European Conservatives and Reformists (2009-2011)
Colours	Maroon, white, and gold
Website
http://www.tb.lv
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For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK (Latvian: Tēvzemei un Brīvībai/LNNK, abbreviated to TB/LNNK) was a free market national conservative political party in Latvia. In 2011 it dissolved and merged into the National Alliance.

The party was founded from smaller groups in 1993 as 'For Fatherland and Freedom' (TB), with a focus on promoting the Latvian language and putting a cap on naturalisation of Latvian Non-citizens. It won six Saeima seats in its first year, and 14 in 1995, when it entered the governing centre-right coalition. It merged with the moderate Latvian National Independence Movement (LNNK) in 1997, and moved its emphasis to economic liberalisation. TB/LNNK's then-leader, Guntars Krasts, was Prime Minister from 1997 to 1998. It remained in government until 2004, and again from 2006.

Initially from the nationalist right, the party become more moderate after the 1997 merger. It also shifted from supporting economic interventionism to the free market. A predominantly ethnic Latvian party, the party's support base was university-educated,middle class, and concentrated in Riga. The party was soft eurosceptic, and was a member of the anti-federalist Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists. Its only MEP, party leader Roberts Zīle, sat with the ECR group in the European Parliament. It caused controversy with its commemoration of Latvian Legion Day.