LATVIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC WORKERS' PARTY

The 'Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party' (Latvian: ''Latvijas Sociāldemokrātiskā Strādnieku Partija'', abbreviated as LSDSP) is a political party in Latvia. The party emerged as three separate parties merged into one in the early 1990s (two of them descendants of the old Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party and one descendant of the reformed faction of former Communist Party of Latvia).
The merged party enjoyed some success in parliamentary elections in 1998, winning 14 seats out of 100 and in local elections in 2001, when one of its members, Gundars Bojārs became the mayor of Riga. It was less successful in the next legislative elections, held on 5 October 2002, where it got only 4% of the vote, and did not make the 5% minimum to get seats. The decline of LSDSP's popularity continued as the party lost the mayor's seat in Riga in 2005 municipal elections (keeping 7 seats in the Riga City Council but forced into the opposition). The parliamentary elections of 2006 brought even more dissatisfactory results for LSDSP as the party got 3.5% of votes and thus got no representation in the parliament once again.
The party is currently lead by Jānis Dinevičs.

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