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Harmony Centre

Harmony Centre
Saskaņas Centrs
Центр согласия
AbbreviationSC (Latvian)
ЦС (Russian)
LeaderNils Ušakovs
Jānis Urbanovičs
FounderSergey Dolgopolov[1]
Founded9 July 2005 (2005-07-09)[2]
Dissolved2014
Succeeded bySocial Democratic Party "Harmony"
HeadquartersRiga, Jura Alunāna 8-3, LV-1010
IdeologySocial democracy
Russian minority politics
Political positionCentre-left to left-wing
European Parliament groupS&D (SDPS)
GUE/NGL (LSP)
Member partiesNational Harmony Party
Socialist Party of Latvia
New Centre
Daugavpils City Party
Social Democratic Party
Colours  Red
  White
SloganA decent life for everyone
(Latvian: Pienācīga dzīve visiem;
Russian: Достойная жизнь для каждого)
Seats in the 11th Saeima
31 / 100
Seats in the 7th European Parliament
2 / 8
Website
saskanascentrs.lv

Harmony Centre (Latvian: Saskaņas Centrs, SC; Russian: Центр Cогласия, ЦC) was a social-democratic[3][4][5][6] political alliance in Latvia. It originally consisted of five political parties: the National Harmony Party, the Socialist Party of Latvia, New Centre, the Daugavpils City Party, and the Social Democratic Party. Through a series of mergers they were eventually reduced to two: Social Democratic Party "Harmony" and the Socialist Party.

Ideologically a catch-all grouping of centre-left[7] and left-wing[8] parties, the alliance also aimed to represent the interests of Russians in Latvia.[6]

  1. ^ https://saskana.eu/ru/o-nas/ О «Согласии»
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference alliance was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ José M. Magone (17 December 2014). Routledge Handbook of European Politics. Routledge. p. 526. ISBN 978-1-317-62836-1.
  4. ^ Sten Berglund (1 April 2013). The Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 100–. ISBN 978-1-78254-588-0.
  5. ^ Hans Slomp (2011). Europe, a Political Profile: An American Companion to European Politics. ABC-CLIO. p. 531–. ISBN 978-0-313-39181-1.
  6. ^ a b Nordsieck, Wolfram (2011). "Latvia". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  7. ^ Dahl, James (22 September 2010). "Latvia on the brink – once again". Politico Europe.
  8. ^ "Latvian vote may mean minority government". Radio France Internationale. 17 September 2011.

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