Latvian political party
Honor to serve Riga! (Latvian : Gods kalpot Rīgai! , GKR) is a municipal political party located in Riga , Latvia . It was created on 17 March 2012 and is led by Andris Ameriks , the former deputy mayor of Riga.[ 1] [ 2]
In 2013 the party entered an electoral alliance with the centre-left Harmony party to participate in the Riga municipal election . The joint Harmony/GKR list won 58.5% and 39 seats, of which Proud to serve Riga received 15. Together the two parties control the Riga City Council . From 2004–2011 Andris Ameriks was a member of the Riga Council for the Latvia's First Party and thereafter Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way , a party of centre-right orientation. The majority of party members were former deputies of the LFP/LW fraction in Riga City Council.[ 4]
In the 2020 Riga City Council election GKR ran separately from Harmony due to a previous breakup of their alliance, winning five seats and a later becoming a member of the opposition.
The only representative of the party in the Saeima is Jūlija Stepaņenko , elected from the Harmony list in the 2018 parliamentary election .
For the 2022 Latvian parliamentary election , members of the party (e.g. Burovs) are running as candidates under the Latvia First party ticket.[ 5]
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