| Country: | Latvia |
| For Latvia's Development | |
| Native Name: | Latvijas attīstībai |
| Abbreviation: | LA |
| Leader1 Title: | Co-chairs |
| Founder: | Einars Repše |
| Ideology: | Classical liberalism Market liberalism |
| Youth Wing: | Jaunieši attīstībai[1] |
| Position: | Centre-right |
| Split: | Unity |
| European: | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party |
| Europarl: | Renew Europe |
| Colours: | Grey Yellow (customary) |
| Headquarters: | Blaumaņa iela 5a Riga |
| Seats1 Title: | Saeima |
| Seats2 Title: | European Parliament |
| Seats3 Title: | Riga City Council |
| Seats3: | |
| National: | Development/For! (de jure only) |
| Seats4: | |
| Seats4 Title: | Mayors |
For Latvia's Development (Latvian: Latvijas attīstībai, abbr. LA) is a classical liberal political party in Latvia.[2] [3] It is positioned on the centre-right on the political spectrum. From 2018 to 2022 it was one of the members of the Development/For! alliance, before it de facto dissolved.[4] [5] [6]
The party was founded in 2013 by the former Prime Minister of Latvia Einars Repše.[7]
Internationally the party is a full member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party, a grouping of centrist and liberal parties from across Europe, since April 2013.[8]
On 29 November 2014 Juris Pūce was elected as the new chairperson and a new political manifesto was adopted.[9]
With the adoption of the new manifesto, the party defined itself as a liberal party that "appreciates and values" individual freedom and equal treatment before the law regardless of nationality, race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, or physical and mental abilities. Later on the party defined itself as representing classical or market liberalism.
Ahead of the 2018 parliamentary election, LA formed an alliance with Movement For! and Growth, called "Development/For!".[10] This alliance, led by Artis Pabriks, won 12% of the votes and 13 of 100 seats in the Saeima. It joined the Kariņš cabinet, taking three ministerial posts, including Juris Pūce as minister of environmental protection and regional development as well as Artis Pabriks as defence minister and deputy prime minister. Artis Pabriks and member of the European Parliament Ivars Ijabs, who had been members of the "Development/For!" alliance, but not For Latvia's Development, joined the party in October 2019.[11]
After disappointing results from the 2022 parliamentary election, in which the alliance failed to return its parliamentary seats, the alliance was technically dissolved, though it remains registered to maintain state funding under the legal name of PLI (an abbrevation of the initials of the names of the former constituent parties).[12]
| Election | Party leader | Performance | Rank | Government | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ± pp | Seats | +/– | ||||
| 2014 | Einars Repše | 8,156 | 0.90 | New | New | 9th | ||
| 2018 | Juris Pūce | 101,685 | 12.12 | 11.22 | 6 | 4th | ||
| 2022 | Artis Pabriks | 45,452 | 4.97 | 7.15 | 0 | 8th | ||
| Election | List leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | EP Group |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Andrejs Žagars | 9,421 | 2.14 (#8) | New | – | |
| 2019 | Ivars Ijabs | 58,763 | 12.49 (#4) | 1 | RE | |
| 2024 | 48,696 | 9.46 (#3) | 0 | |||
On 23 March 2015 party leader Juris Pūce launched a signature collection campaign on ManaBalss.lv for the adoption of a Cohabitation Law in Latvia[13] that received more than 10,000 signatures, but was rejected by the Saeima on 15 March 2018.[14]