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	The Omnipotence of the State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fatherland continued to be the negation of the freedom of the individual, in the republic as it had been in the monarchy.
		Submerged and drowned the freedom of the individuals in such a torrent of unlimited and omnipotent public power, it results that the tyranny of the Fatherland, omnipotent and all-embracing, is performed in the name of a patriotism under which the freedom of the individual remains eclipsed; this is the patriotic freedom par excellence.
		Thus, the soldier was the champion of the freedom against the foreigner, considered as the natural enemy of the independence of the Fatherland; human glory consisted of the triumphs in the fight maintained for the defense of the freedom of the Fatherland against all outside domination.
	www.fff.org /comment/com0402j.asp (7664 words)

	For Fatherland and Freedom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK ( TÄ“vzemei un BrÄ«vÄ«bai/LNNK) is a nationalistic political party in Latvia.
		The roots of the party are in the Latvian independence movement of late 1980s, namely, the more radical part of the movement, which insisted on full independence for Latvia and the legal continuity with the Republic of Latvia which existed until 1940 when it was occupied by Soviet Union.
		In the end of 1990s and early 2000s, the party shifted its focus to economic issues, as the language and citizenship issues were largely resolved.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fatherland_and_Freedom (390 words)

	Art - The Baltic Times- NEWS FROM ESTONIA,LATVIA AND LITHUANIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While the party, which has seven seats in Parliament, had repeatedly stated that it would tag alongside New Era either in the opposition or the next Cabinet, it suddenly changed its stance and decided to go its own way after Aigars Kalvitis, the prime minister designate, offered the party three ministerial posts.
		Nevertheless, For Fatherland and Freedom's seven votes are unlikely to be missed, and the party has agreed to cooperate with the government on many issues.
		Parliament faction head Maris Grinblats told party representatives that the new government was better than the previous one in that it did not have to rely on leftist support and Latvia's First Party, a centrist force, would have less influence.
	www.baltictimes.com /art.php?art_id=11549 (854 words)

	list of political parties in latvia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Parties represented in the Parliament of Latvia (as of March 2004)
		Latvijas Zaļā Partija; or LZP (Green Party of Latvia).
		Parties which participated in 2002 parliamentary elections but did not win any seats in the parliament.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /list_of_political_parties_in_latvia.html (242 words)

	Freedom in the World 2000 - 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The year 1997 was marked by continual government instability, with Skele surrendering the premiership to Guntars Krasts of the right-wing nationalist Fatherland and Freedom Party in July-August.
		The People’s Party was excluded from the ruling coalition, which most observers predicted would not survive for long because of the ideological diversity of its members and its minority status in parliament.
		Latvia’s Way, the People’s Party, and Fatherland and Freedom put aside enough of their differences to agree to form a new 62-seat majority coalition to be led by Kristopan’s rival, Andris Skele, as prime minister.
	www.freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2001/countryratings/latvia.htm (1012 words)

	Art - The Baltic Times- NEWS FROM ESTONIA,LATVIA AND LITHUANIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Party representatives left the foreign affairs committee meeting and paralyzed passage of the convention for lack of quorum.
		For Fatherland and Freedom voted against, as did Leopolds Ozolins of the Greens and Farmers Union and Paulis Klavins from New Era.
		The nationalist party was similarly unimpressed with the acceptance of the international agreement.
	www.baltictimes.com /art.php?art_id=12800 (607 words)

	Freedom in the World 1998-99: Latvia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The People’s Party of Skele, who is widely disliked for his authoritarian and abrasive style, was effectively excluded from the new administration despite its election win and its political similarities with the three coalition parties.
		Freedom of assembly and association are protected by law, and numerous public gatherings and demonstrations occurred in 1998 without government interference.
		Although the amendments passed their first two readings in parliament in May and June, their adoption was postponed when a group of MPs, at the initiative of the Fatherland and Freedom Party, requested that a referendum be held on the issue.
	www.freedomhouse.org /survey99/country/latvia.html (1160 words)

	Art - The Baltic Times- NEWS FROM ESTONIA,LATVIA AND LITHUANIA
		The Peopleâs Party tried to besmirch the reputation of Aksenoks, calling him âweak.â The party said the mayor candidate lacked a plan and his tenure in Vietnam during the last years of the Soviet Union was, at best, dubious.
		The left-wing parties that would have been acceptable, the Social Democrats and New Center, did not have enough votes to replace the vacuum, had New Era walked away from the negotiating table.
		Cooperation with left-wing parties such as For Human Rights in a United Latvia or the rump party Homeland/Socialists, which appears to glorify Alfreds Rubiks, the last Soviet mayor who is overtly sentimental about the Soviet period, would have been the kiss of death for any Latvian party.
	www.baltictimes.com /art.php?art_id=12370 (718 words)

	MINELREL-L Archive (08281998-11:01:20-10355) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		But while the last provision was supported by the Fatherland and Freedom party, which is the largest party in the parliament, it did not meet the OSCE recommendation that children born in Latvia be automatically granted citizenship, regardless of language proficiency.
		Prime Minister Guntars Krasts of the Fatherland and Freedom Party, who signed the referendum petition just days before the signature-collecting campaign ended, argues that the amendments were passed without a broad public debate and that the best way to judge public opinion is through a popular vote.
		The party is also concerned that if the vote were to take place on a separate day, there may not be the necessary turnout of 50 percent of the electorate.
	www.minelres.lv /minelres/archive/08281998-11:01:20-10355.html (1376 words)

	MINELRES: Minority issues in Latvia, No. 53 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We would also put the "The Russian party" into the same group of explicitly nationalistic parties, for it de facto advocates ethnic segregation (currently this party is not represented in the parliament but has one member in the capital city Riga municipal council).
		On the contrary, Latvian Social-Democratic Workers' Party is in favor of elimination of secondary education in minority languages in 2004, as the Education law currently in force stipulates.
		Zhdanok was a member of the Inner Audit Commission in the Latvian Communist Party, therefore in December 1999 she was deprived of the Riga City Council deputy's mandate on the reason of alleged "activities" in the Latvian Communist Party after January 13, 1991 (see Minority issues in Latvia, No. 10, http://racoon.riga.lv/minelres/archive//11271999-18:57:30-21424.html).
	lists.delfi.lv /pipermail/minelres/2002-August/002234.html (2882 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Siim Kallas, leader of the opposition Reform Party, wrote in the 14 August daily "Postimees" that the Coalition Party is losing ground to its rural partners in the ruling coalition and that the latter will likely have the upper hand if the alliance is renewed for the March 1999 elections, BNS reported.
		The driving force behind the initiative is Krasts's Father and Freedom party, which is opposed to the amendment whereby all children born after August 1991 will be granted citizenship without having to demonstrate proficiency in the Latvian language.
		The HZDS claimed that the SDK is a coalition of parties and that, in line with the new electoral law, each of its components must win at least 5 percent of the vote on 25-26 September to gain parliamentary representation.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/1998/08/3-CEE/cee-170898.asp (1438 words)

	WheretodoResearch.com - Major Democratic Conservative Parties in Democracies
		However, not all parties that are members of either the CDI and/or the IDU are conservative.
		The CDI consists of leftist, centrist, and conservative parties in democracies, non-democracies and semi-democracies.
		Mostly the ELDR is a caucus of like-minded parties in the European Parliament.
	www.wheretodoresearch.com /International/Conservative_Parties.htm (394 words)

	Global Freemasonry. com - This site is based on the works of Harun Yahya.
		Along with not being a political party, Freemasonry became organized in the beginning of the eighteenth century into a social institution of international scope in tune with political and social currents.
		In order to help sects in their attempt to exercise religious freedom, Freemasonry engaged in a struggle against the power and influence of the clergy in the attempt to achieve their sole aim of toppling the Church's power and influence over the people.
		Freedom of thought and conscience of the children has to be developed systematically in the child at school and protected, as far as possible, against all disturbing influences, not only of the Church and priests, but also of the children's own parents, if necessary, even by means of moral and physical compulsion.
	www.globalfreemasonry.com /global_freemasonry_06.html (5885 words)

	Latvia, a new emerging economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In an unprecedented move, the nationalist For Fatherland and Freedom party pulled out of government negotiations on Dec 1st, a day after it had agreed to a large ministerial portfolio and just hours after its close ally, New Era, also decided to join.
		While the party, which has seven seats in Parliament, had repeatedly stated that it would follow alongside New Era either in the opposition or the next cabinet, it suddenly changed its stance and decided to go its own way after Aigars Kalvitis, the prime minister designate, offered the party three ministerial posts.
		Kalvitis, who is a member of the People's Party, said at the party's congress on Dec 4th that he could have left New Era out of the government based on "how they treated us, what words they used, and what lines they crossed."
	www.newnations.com /archive/2005/March/lv.html (2267 words)

	UK Independence Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One of them is the nationalistic conservative "For Fatherland and Freedom/ LNNK" (TB/ LNNK) party, stressing that former KGB employees as well as Communist Party members should not represent Latvia in the European Parliament.
		The Liberals hope to participate in the European Parliament elections as EU membership was a main priority for this party.
		Among other parties that have plans to run for seats in the European Parliament, are the Greens’ and the Farmers’ Union (ZZS) which joined the now pan-European Green party.
	www.ukip.org /abc_news/gen12.php?t=1&id=442 (725 words)

	BalticLinks - search engine and directory for Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Four members of Latvia's New Party were expelled from the governing coalition this week after voting with the opposition on a bill to exempt traditional religions from property taxes.
		With the exception of the People's Party the parties even went further and said they'd exempt the church from the VAT it pays when it restores buildings and provides social care.
		Matule admits a mistake was made when the church sent out questionnaires to parties standing at the last election, but she denies that the government has broken its promises.
	www.balticlinks.com /news/story.msql?story=981130109 (616 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		Each party proceeded to vote for the candidate it had fielded, with the result that no candidate even came close to crossing the election threshold.
		During this new round, the three parties announced a joint candidate: Vaira Vike-Freiberga, a Riga-born psychology professor from Canada who had returned to Latvia in 1998 and who was a political independent.
		LW supported the law, in what political observers concluded was an attempt by the party to ensure its inclusion in a new government coalition.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol8num4/constitutionwatch/latvia.html (2150 words)

	Main Basque nationalist party suffers losses in Spanish regional elections
		The coalition government of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) and the Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) won the elections held in the Basque region April 17, but lost their overall majority, mainly as a result of advances by the Socialist Party and the regional Communist Party.
		This party benefited from a call to vote for it by the Batasuna party and a new political party, “All the Options” (Aukera Guztiak-AG), which were both banned for their alleged ties with ETA.
		This party was founded in 2002 and announced prior to the election that it would campaign for the programmes of Batasuna and AG in the Basque assembly.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/apr2005/basq-a19_prn.shtml (1754 words)

	Basque Homeland and Freedom
		The Basque Fatherland and Liberty group was founded in 1959 by a group of student activists dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party.
		However for a minority in the ETA this partial autonomy was not enough.
		In the same year ETA attempted to assassinate the leader of the opposition Popular Party (later Prime Minister), Jose Maria Anzar, by means of a car bomb.
	www.ict.org.il /inter_ter/orgdet.cfm?orgid=8 (1133 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		Several parties make up the present coalition, which is dominated by the Democratic Party Saimnieks (DPS), with 18 of 100 seats in Parliament, Latvia’s Way (LW), with 17 seats, and the Fatherland and Freedom Party (FFP), with 14.
		The nationalist FFP eventually retreated from its insistence on maintaining the current law, and the government parties agreed to modify it.
		Farmers Union (FU) received the Ministry of Economics, the Reform Party (RP) received the Ministry of Interior, and LW received the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, as well as the State Ministry on Local Government.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol7num2/constitutionwatch/latvia.html (2146 words)

	Freedom Democratic Party (Uzbekistan)
		The ERK ( Freedom) Democratic Party grew out of the Birlik (Unity) Popular Front of Uzbekistan which was started by Muhammad Salih and two of his friends in November, 1988.
		ERK took its name from a Turkistani nationalist party of the same name that was active among intellectuals in Central Asia in the 1920s.
		The ERK party distinguished itself from the rest of the Birlik movement by stressing the principle of "Independence First" rather than the notion of "First Democracy, Then Independence" which had become the slogan of pro-Moscow factions of the movement.
	flagspot.net /flags/uz}erk.html (460 words)

	The Weekly Crier Archives from November 9-November 23, 1998
		Combined, the three would-be government parties control just 46 seats in the 100-seat Latvian legislature, or Saeima, and they would have to secure the support of parties outside the coalition in order to win parliamentary approval.
		Kristopans, a member of Latvia’s Way, also said he rejected a request by Fatherland and Freedom that it be handed the post of foreign minister.
		Kristopans said a top priority of his government would be improving relations with Russia, and he said Fatherland and Freedom wouldn’t be able to achieve that goal.
	www.balticsww.com /wkcrier/1109_1123.htm (3084 words)

	Category:Lists of political parties by generic name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These are lists of political parties by generic name.
		See list of generic names of political parties for a cross-referenced list.
		Articles in category "Lists of political parties by generic name"
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Lists_of_political_parties_by_generic_name (69 words)

	CER \| Latvia: LASCO privatisation row continues
		A junior coalition party, For Fatherland and Freedom, is enjoying the most support, 16.5 percent, at the upcoming municipal elections for Riga.
		For Fatherland and Freedom MP Dzintars Kudums said that the amendments are needed to avoid repeating a situation when several members of Russia's radical National Bolshevik movement entered Latvia visa-free and later lock themselves up in St Peter's Church in central Riga and threaten to blow it up.
		Turlais was elected as the party chairman and promised to defend interests the interests of businessmen while voicing reservations about Latvia's accession to NATO and defense spending rise.
	www.ce-review.org /01/3/latvianews3.html (1206 words)

	MINELREL-L Archive (03042002-13:58:19-15408)
		Dz.Rasnachs (radical nationalistic "For Fatherland and Freedom") told, "I think that George Robertson did not make it clear that the law has to be amended.
		Tense behind-the-scene bargaining is to be expected over which party will have "to surrender" and to support the amendments, and which one can afford consistent opposition to them, thus scoring political points before the elections.
		Ruling parties the People's Party and "For Fatherland and Freedom", actively use the language issue in their pre-election campaign (the parliamentary elections will be held on 6 October, 2002).
	www.minelres.lv /minelres/archive/03042002-13:58:19-15408.html (2922 words)

	Latvian government collapses
		The dispute between Repse and the First Party erupted after he dismissed its leader from the post of deputy prime minister, after it voted with the opposition to set up an inquiry into the allegations of financial impropriety made against the prime minister.
		It is widely believed that the government would have fallen apart last year had it not been for the coalition parties’; acceptance of the need to present a united face during the referendum campaign that culminated in the country voting to join the European Union in September.
		Following the referendum, Oskar Kastens, chair of the parliamentary faction of the First Party, demanded the resignation of Repse, alleging that the prime minister was guilty of corruption and was riding roughshod over the wishes of other coalition members.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/mar2004/latv-m05_prn.shtml (840 words)

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