Harmony Centre
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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.
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Harmony Centre Saskaņas Centrs Центр согласия | |
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Abbreviation | SC (Latvian) ЦС (Russian) |
Leader | Nils Ušakovs Jānis Urbanovičs |
Founder | Sergey Dolgopolov[1] |
Founded | 9 July 2005 (2005-07-09)[2] |
Dissolved | 2014 |
Succeeded by | Social Democratic Party "Harmony" |
Headquarters | Riga, Jura Alunāna 8-3, LV-1010 |
Ideology | Social democracy Russian minority politics |
Political position | Centre-left to left-wing |
European Parliament group | S&D (SDPS) GUE/NGL (LSP) |
Member parties | National Harmony Party Socialist Party of Latvia New Centre Daugavpils City Party Social Democratic Party |
Colours | Red White |
Slogan | A 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 | |
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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]