Latvian Social Democratic Labour Party
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Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party
Latvijas Sociāldemokrātiskā Strādnieku Partija |
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| Leader | Aivars Timofejevs |
| Founded | 1918 |
| Headquarters | Riga |
| Youth wing | Social Democratic Youth Union |
| Ideology | Social democracy |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| European affiliation | Party of European Socialists (observer) |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Red |
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| European Parliament |
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| http://www.lsdsp.lv | |
The Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Latvian: Latvijas Sociāldemokrātiskā Strādnieku Partija, LSDSP) is a social-democratic political party in Latvia. It has a long history but is not represented in the current parliament of Latvia.
The Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party was founded on 17 June 1918, by Menshevik elements who had been expelled from the Social Democracy of the Latvian Territory in 1915. Once Latvia became independent, LSDSP was one of the two most influential political parties (along with the Latvian Farmers' Union). LSDSP held 57 out of 150 seats in the 1920 Constitutional Assembly (Satversmes Sapulce). It won the most seats in each of four parliamentary elections of that period (31 out of 100 in 1922, 33 in 1925, 26 in 1928 and 21 in 1931). The leader of the LSDSP, Pauls Kalniņš, was speaker of the Latvian parliament from 1925 to 1934.
The party itself, however, would often be in opposition because of many smaller right-wing parties forming coalition governments, typically led by the Latvian Farmers' Union.
The party was a member of the Labour and Socialist International between 1923 and 1940, and was admitted into the modern Socialist International in 1994.
The LSDSP was banned after the 1934 coup by Kārlis Ulmanis, together with all other political parties, and remained banned after the Soviet annexation in 1940. When many Latvians left Latvia during World War II, the LSDSP was restored as an "exile organization", operating in Sweden in 1945, and later in other Western countries.
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