All for Latvia!

{{Infobox political party

| country = Latvia

|name = All for Latvia

| native_name = Visu Latvijai!

| colorcode = {{party color|All for Latvia!}}

| logo = FlagVisuLatvijai.svg

| leader = Joint leadership of
{{Interlanguage link|Imants Parādnieks|lv|Imants Parādnieks}}
Raivis Dzintars.{{cite news|title=History of All for Latvia! (Visu Latvijai!)|url=https://www.nacionalaapvieniba.lv/valodas/history-of-all-for-latvia-visu-latvijai/|publisher=All for Latvia!|access-date=30 March 2014|archive-date=18 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818100628/https://www.nacionalaapvieniba.lv/valodas/history-of-all-for-latvia-visu-latvijai/|url-status=dead}}

| foundation = 14 January 2006

| dissolution = 23 July 2011

| ideology = Latvian nationalism{{cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.de/latvia.html|last=Nordsieck|year=2010|first=Wolfram|title=Latvia|website=Parties and Elections in Europe|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726031852/http://www.parties-and-elections.de/latvia.html|archive-date=26 July 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=7 April 2019}}

| position = Right-wing

| merged = National Alliance

| international =

| european =

| europarl =

| colours = Maroon

| headquarters = Riga

| website = {{URL|visulatvijai.lv}}

}}

All for Latvia! ({{langx|lv|Visu Latvijai!}}) was a right-wing ethnic nationalist political party in Latvia led by Raivis Dzintars and {{Interlanguage link|Imants Parādnieks|lv|Imants Parādnieks}}. Formed in 2000, it entered a right-wing nationalist coalition in 2010, and ultimately merged with the For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK in 2011 to form the National Alliance.

History

All for Latvia! started in 2000 as a non-formal Latvian youth group with a nationalist disposition and became a social organization in 2002.

The organization became a political party in January 2006. For the 2010 elections for the Saeima, All for Latvia! joined forces in the National Alliance with the more established national conservative party For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK to field a common list of candidates.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cvk.lv/cgi-bin/wdbcgiw/base/komisijas2010.CVKAND10.kandid2?nr1=10|title=Cvk|website=www.cvk.lv}} At the election, the list won eight seats, six of them for All for Latvia!. Unity invited the electoral alliance of All for Latvia! and For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK to join the coalition, but the offer was withdrawn a few says later after Society for Political Change, one of the parties making up Unity, vetoed such option.{{cite news |last=Strautmanis |first=Andris |title=Veto ousts nationalists from new government; 2 parties remain in talks |url=https://latviansonline.com/veto-ousts-nationalists-from-new-government-2-parties-remain-in-talks/ |date=25 October 2010 |publisher=Latvians Online |access-date=24 May 2011}}

On 23 July 2011, the For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK Party and All for Latvia! merged to form the National Alliance.{{cite web |url=http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/29032/ |title=Latvian political parties undergo major upheaval |work=The Baltic Times |date=12 July 2011 |access-date=7 April 2019}}

In April 2013, All for Latvia! officially established cooperation ties with the Russian National Democratic Alliance.{{cite news |title=Latvian Nationalists of All for Latvia! make friends with Nationalists in Russia. |language=Russian |url=http://www.ves.lv/article/240836 |newspaper=ves.lv |date=2 April 2013 |access-date=2 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922053459/http://www.ves.lv/article/240836 |archive-date=22 September 2013 |url-status=dead }}

Ideology

All for Latvia! supported making Latvian citizenship laws more restrictive, by introducing strict limits on the number of people who can be naturalized into Latvian citizenship in one year. All for Latvia! wanted to increase the percentage of ethnic Latvians in the country to at least 75%, by providing financial support to other ethnicities who would like to leave the country and ethnic Latvians from abroad who would like to return to Latvia. All for Latvia! supported a greater role for the Latvian language and proposed to make it the only language of instruction in publicly funded primary and secondary schools, starting from 2015. The party was opposed to European federalism.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

All for Latvia! supported protectionist economic policies to increase the role of locally owned businesses. It was supportive of the traditional family, opposed to homosexuality, gambling and favours more restrictive regulation of alcohol sales. It believed that the common interests of the nation have a higher value than the interests of individual people.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

Latvian political scientist Nils Muižnieks described All for Latvia! as racist in 2005.Nils Muižnieks. [https://books.google.com/books?id=YB-ZwiBf5HgC&pg=PA101 Latvia]. In: Racist extremism in Central and Eastern Europe. Ed. C. Mudde. Routledge, 2005. {{ISBN|0-415-35593-1}} – p. 107 In April 2013, MEP from Harmony Centre Alexander Mirsky was found guilty by Riga District Court and ordered to pay damages to All for Latvia! and other National Alliance members for defamation by calling them "fascists".{{cite news |title=Mirsky will have to pay 500 Lats to each of the leaders of the VL-TB/LNNK for offending them. |language=Russian |url=http://www.ves.lv/article/240866 |newspaper=ves.lv |date=3 April 2013 |access-date=3 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217224344/http://www.ves.lv/article/240866 |archive-date=17 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}

Election results

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Election year ! # of overall votes ! % of overall vote ! # of overall seats won ! +/– ! Government
2006 \| 13,469 \| 1.5 (#10) \| {{Composition bar\|0\|100\|hex=#ed1c24}} \| {{increase}} \|

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Election year

! # of
overall votes

! % of
overall vote

! # of
overall seats won

! +/–

! Government

2006

| 13,469

| 1.5 (#10)

| {{Composition bar|0|100|hex=#ed1c24}}

| {{increase}}