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Latvian political party

Not to be confused with Latvia First.

The Latvia's First Party (Latvian: Latvijas Pirmā Partija) was a socially conservative, Christian-democratic^[2]right-wingpolitical party in Latvia. It merged with Latvian Way to form Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way in 2007.

It was founded on 25 May 2002, led by Ēriks Jēkabsons and Ainārs Šlesers. The party included a number of priests from all the major branches of Christianity in Latvia (Lutheran, Catholic, Orthodox and Baptist) as well as members of Jaunā Paaudze (New Generation), a charismatic church. As a result, it was informally nicknamed "the party of priests" or the "pastors' party".

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Using populist promises and support from religious organisations, it won 9.5% of the popular vote and 10 out of 100 seats in the Saeima after the elections of October 5, 2002 and joined all the coalition governments since that time until its dissolution. In the 2006 elections, it ran toge Ainars Slesers (January 22, 1970 — 1999), Latvian politician ...

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