Movement For!

{{Infobox political party

| country = Latvia

| name = Movement For!

| native_name = Kustība Par!

| abbreviation = Par!

| logo = Kustība Par! Logo.svg

| logo_size = 150px

| leader = Laima Geikina
Vladislava Marāne
Inese Voika

| colorcode = {{party color|Movement For!}}

| headquarters = Torņa iela 4, III-C 101, Riga LV-1050

| foundation = {{Start date and age|2017|8|27|df=yes}}

| membership_year =

| membership =

| ideology = Liberalism
Social liberalism

| position = Centre

| europarl = Renew Europe

| european = Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

| colours = {{color box|{{party color|Movement For!}}|border=darkgray}} Yellow
{{color box|#1B1A1A|border=darkgray}} Black

| national = Development/For! (de iure only)

| seats1_title = Saeima

| seats1 = {{Political party data|seat composition bar|ms-lower-house|percent=yes}}

| seats2_title = European Parliament

| seats2 = {{Political party data|seat composition bar|ep|percent=yes}}

| seats3_title = Riga City Council

| seats3 = {{Infobox political party/seats|2|60|{{party color|Movement For!}}}}

| seats4 = {{Infobox political party/seats|0|43|{{party color|Movement For!}}}}

| seats4_title = Mayors

| website = {{URL|https://kustibapar.lv/}}

}}

Movement For! ({{langx|lv|Kustība Par!}}) is a liberal political party in Latvia.{{Cite news|date=30 August 2017|title=New political party The Movement For! established in Latvia|newspaper=The Baltic Times|url=https://www.baltictimes.com/new_political_party_the_movement_for___established_in_latvia/}}[http://www.tvnet.lv/zinas/latvija/674676-registrejoties_teju_300_biedriem_nodibina_partiju_kustiba_par Reģistrējoties teju 300 biedriem nodibina partiju Kustība Par!]. tvnet.lv. Accessed on 27 February 2018. It is positioned in the centre on the political spectrum with an emphasis on social liberalism.{{Cite web |last=Kramer |first=Samuel |date=2022-10-25 |title=The Short, (Un)happy Life of Development/For! – What It Can Teach Liberalism Europe-wide - Foreign Policy Research Institute |url=https://www.fpri.org/article/2022/10/the-short-unhappy-life-of-development-for-what-it-can-teach-liberalism-europe-wide/ |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=www.fpri.org |language=en-US}} The party was formed in August 2017. From 2018 to 2022 it was one of the members of the Development/For! alliance, before it de facto dissolved.{{Cite web |date=2022-11-25 |title=Politisko partiju apvienības "Attīstībai/Par!" valdes paziņojums - Attīstībai/Par! |url=https://attistibaipar.lv/zinas/politisko-partiju-apvienibas-attistibai-par-valdes-pazinojums/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |language=lv}}

History

Movement For! did not participate in Latvian parliamentary election in 2014, but received representation in the Saeima when Lolita Čigāne, Ints Dālderis, Andrejs Judins and Aleksejs Loskutovs defected from Unity in July 2017, with Čigāne suggesting the Latvian political spectrum needed a centrist, pro-European party.{{cite web|url=https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/five-mps-leave-unity-party.a243665/|title=Five MPs leave Unity party|date=July 18, 2017|publisher=Public Broadcasting of Latvia |access-date=27 February 2018}} In February 2018, Saeima members Judins and Loskutovs left the "Movement For".{{Cite news |url=https://www.diena.lv/raksts/latvija/politika/judins-un-loskutovs-pamet-partiju-_kustiba-par_-14191838 |title=Judins un Loskutovs pamet partiju Kustība Par! |newspaper=Diena |date=22 February 2018}} Dālderis and Čigāne retired from the party in April 2018, depriving it of its remaining members of parliament.{{cite news |title=Saeima deputy Lolita Čigāne decides to leave "Kustība Par!" political party |url=http://bnn-news.com/saeima-deputy-lolita-cigane-decides-to-leave-kustiba-par-political-party-182738 |access-date=9 June 2018 |publisher=Baltic News Network |agency=LETA |date=3 April 2018}}

In June 2018, member of European Parliament Artis Pabriks (former foreign minister and minister of defense of Latvia) defected from Unity to the Movement For, thereby representing the new party in the European Parliament. He continues to sit with the centre-right European People's Party group. Pabriks has also announced to run for the 2018 parliamentary election on the joint list of Latvian Development and Movement For.{{cite news |title=Prominent MEP switches parties ahead of election |url=https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/prominent-mep-switches-parties-ahead-of-election.a280743/ |access-date=9 June 2018 |publisher=Public Broadcasting of Latvia |date=4 June 2018}} He was the prime ministerial candidate of Development/For! in the 2018 parliamentary election.{{cite news |title=More parties submit election tickets |url=https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/more-parties-submit-election-tickets.a287372/ |access-date=2 August 2018 |publisher=Public Broadcasting of Latvia |date=2 August 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Kaža |first1=Juris |title=Who is who in upcoming Latvian parliamentary elections |url=https://en.rebaltica.lv/2018/08/who-is-who-in-upcoming-latvian-parliamentary-elections/ |access-date=17 August 2018 |work=Re:Baltica |date=14 August 2018}}

=Latvian parliamentary election, 2018=

In March 2018, Movement For! formed the Development/For! electoral alliance with two small liberal and pro-European parties, Latvian Development (Latvijas attīstībai) and Growth (Izaugsme), to run in the Latvian parliamentary election in October of the same year together.{{Cite news |author1=Sintija Ambote |author2=Dace Stirāne |title=Kustība "Par!" vēlēšanās startēs kopā ar "Latvijas attīstībai" |url=https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/latvija/kustiba-par-velesanas-startes-kopa-ar-latvijas-attistibai.a272540/ |publisher=Latvijas Sabiedriskais medijs |date=24 March 2018}} The alliance was fully registered on 20 April 2018.{{Cite news |title=Kustība Par!, Latvijas attīstībai un Izaugsme ir apvienībā Attīstībai/Par! |publisher=Baltic News Network |date=20 April 2018 |url=http://bnn.lv/i-kustiba-par-i-i-latvijas-attistibai-i-i-izaugsme-i-ir-apvieniba-i-attistibai-par-i-280303}} The alliance came in 4th in the election and joined the Kariņš cabinet.

The party was accepted as a full member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in October 2019.https://www.aldeparty.eu/news/alde-welcomes-new-member-parties-1 {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}

=2021 Latvian municipal elections=

In November 2020 "Movement For!" announced that in the 2021 Latvian municipal elections, will start with own lists, its identity and program, but there is possibility that in some of the municipalities "Movement For!" will start with a joint list with the parties Latvian Development and Growth.{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}}

Currently, "Movement For!" has 12 territorial divisions - Ādaži, Cēsis, Jelgava, Jūrmala, Kuldīga, Liepāja, Mārupe, Ogre, Tukums, Rīga, Valmiera and United Kingdom. Formerly party had division in Ropaži too. {{Citation needed|date=November 2021}}

= 2022 parliamentary elections, aftermath =

After disappointing results from the 2022 parliamentary election, in which the alliance lost all of its seats, the alliance was technically dissolved, though it remains registered to maintain state funding under the legal name of PLI (an abbreviation of the initials of the names of the former constituent parties).{{Cite web |date=2022-11-25 |title=Politisko partiju apvienības "Attīstībai/Par!" valdes paziņojums - Attīstībai/Par! |url=https://attistibaipar.lv/zinas/politisko-partiju-apvienibas-attistibai-par-valdes-pazinojums/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |language=lv}}

For the 2024 European parliament elections – the first where the party would run independently from alliances – the party list is headed by Ukrainian-Belgian political activist and Renew Europe organizer Ivanna Volochiy.{{Cite web |last=Shvets |first=Olexandra |date=2024-05-02 |title=Latvia: Ukrainian Woman Leads Candidates in European Parliament Elections |url=https://thegaze.media/news/latvia-ukrainian-woman-leads-candidates-in-european-parliament-elections |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=thegaze.media |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2024-02-05 |title=Ukrainian becomes top pick for Latvian liberal party in European Parliament election – photo |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/5/7440401/ |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=Ukrainska Pravda |language=en}}

Ideology and policies

The party has been described as espousing social liberal and some economic liberal views.{{Cite web |last=Kramer |first=Samuel |date=2022-10-25 |title=The Short, (Un)happy Life of Development/For! – What It Can Teach Liberalism Europe-wide - Foreign Policy Research Institute |url=https://www.fpri.org/article/2022/10/the-short-unhappy-life-of-development-for-what-it-can-teach-liberalism-europe-wide/ |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=www.fpri.org |language=en-US}}

=Party manifesto=

The party's manifesto emphasizes the need for a unity of society, accessible public health care for everyone, rule of law standing over power and fair trial standing over corruption. The manifesto also calls for a reorganization of the powers to counties and cities, state aid for globally sustainable businesses, and addressing the issue of non-citizens in Latvia. Regarding public safety and foreign policy Movement For! seeks for a close cooperation between Latvia and European Union as well as NATO.[https://kustibapar.lv/manifests/ Manifests | Movement For!]. kustibapar.lv. Accessed on 27 February 2018.

Organisation

=Leadership=

The party's leader from its founding to 2022 was Daniels Pavļuts, who was simultaneously Minister of Health{{Cite web|title=Daniels Pavļuts|url=https://kustibapar.lv/par-cilvekiem/daniels-pavluts/|access-date=2019-10-23|website=Kustība Par!}} and former Minister of Economics in the Third Dombrovskis cabinet.[https://mk.gov.lv/sites/default/files/editor/dombrovskis-3.pdf dombrovskis-3.pdf | Government of Latvia]. mk.gov.lv. Accessed on 27 February 2018.

From 2017 to 2019 the party was led by a board of eight members: former politician Ilze Viņķele, MP of the Saeima Ints Dālderis, political analyst Marija Golubeva, corporate lawyer Evita Goša, economist Kaspars Briškens, Ventspils State Gymnasium No.1 deputy director Oskars Kaulēns, entrepreneur Mārtiņš Staķis and Ministry of Transport official Andulis Židkovs.[https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/latvija/partiju-kustiba-par-vadis-pavluts-valde-ievele-ari-vinkeli-un-dalderi.a247997/ Partiju Kustība Par! vadīs Pavļuts, valdē ievēlē arī Viņķeli un Dālderi]. Latvijas Sabiedriskais medijs. Accessed on 27 February 2018.

In June 2019 a new, larger board with 11 members was elected: Ilze Viņķele, MP of the Saeima and leader of the Development/For! fraction Marija Golubeva, Chairman of the Riga City Council Mārtiņš Staķis, MP of the Saeima Vita Anda Tērauda, Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development Dace Bluķe, MP of the Saeima Mārtiņš Šteins, Head of the Office of the Ministry of Health Vladislava Šķēle, entrepreneur Normunds Mihailovs, DevOp Edgars Jēkabsons and entrepreneur Jevgenijs Lurje.{{Cite web|date=2019-06-15|title=Kustība "Par!" ievēl jaunu, paplašinātu valdi; par tās priekšsēdētāju atkārtoti kļūst Daniels Pavļuts|url=https://kustibapar.lv/2019/06/jauna-valde-kongress/|access-date=2019-10-23|website=Kustība Par!}}

After the disappointing performance of Development/For! in the 2022 parliamentary election, the board of the party announced its resignation, remaining as technical members until an emergency party congress. During an emergency congress on 3 December 2022, the members of the party voted to expand the number of chairpersons to three, electing former MPs Laima Geikina and Inese Voika, as well as Vladislava Marāne (ex Šķēle), the former Chief of the Office of the Minister of Health. A new board was also elected.{{Cite web |last=Delfi |date=2022-12-03 |title='Kustības Par' vadību uztic Voikai, Geikinai un Marānei |url=https://www.delfi.lv/news/national/politics/kustibas-par-vadibu-uztic-voikai-geikinai-un-maranei.d?id=55003040 |access-date=2023-07-18 |website=www.delfi.lv |language=lv}}

Election results

= Legislative elections =

class=wikitable style=text-align:center
rowspan="2" \|Election ! rowspan="2" \|Party leader ! colspan="5" scope="col" \|Performance ! rowspan="2" \|Rank ! rowspan="2" \|Government
Votes !% !± pp !Seats !+/–
2018{{efn\|name=fn1}} \|rowspan=2 \|Daniels Pavļuts \|101,685 \|12.12 \| New \|{{Composition bar\|6\|100\|hex={{party color\|Movement For!}}}} \| New \|4th \|{{yes2\|Coalition}}
2022{{efn\|name=fn1}} \|45,452 \|4.97 \|{{decrease}} 7.15 \|{{Composition bar\|0\|100\|hex={{party color\|Movement For!}}}} \|{{decrease}} 0 \|8th \|{{no\|Extra-parliamentary}}

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rowspan="2" |Election

! rowspan="2" |Party leader

! colspan="5" scope="col" |Performance

! rowspan="2" |Rank

! rowspan="2" |Government

Votes

!± pp

!Seats

!+/–

2018{{efn|name=fn1}}

|rowspan=2 |Daniels Pavļuts

|101,685

|12.12

| New

|{{Composition bar|6|100|hex={{party color|Movement For!}}}}

| New

|4th

|{{yes2|Coalition}}

2022{{efn|name=fn1}}

|45,452

|4.97

|{{decrease}} 7.15

|{{Composition bar|0|100|hex={{party color|Movement For!}}}}

|{{decrease}} 0

|8th

|{{no|Extra-parliamentary}}

{{notelist|notes=

{{efn|name=fn1|Run as part of the Development/For! coalition (Par!, LA and Izaugsme)}}

}}

= European Parliament elections =

class=wikitable style=text-align:center
Election ! List leader ! Votes ! % ! Seats ! +/– ! EP Group
2019{{efn\|The Development/For! list won 1 seats - 1 went to LA}} \| Ivars Ijabs \| 58,763 \| 12.49 (#4) \| {{Composition bar\|0\|8\|hex={{party color\|Movement For!}}}} \| New \| rowspan=2 \|–
2024 \| Ivanna Volochiy \| 1,666 \| 0.32 (#16) \| {{Composition bar\|0\|9\|hex={{party color\|Movement For!}}}} \| {{steady}} 0

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Election

! List leader

! Votes

! %

! Seats

! +/–

! EP Group

2019{{efn|The Development/For! list won 1 seats - 1 went to LA}}

| Ivars Ijabs

| 58,763

| 12.49 (#4)