Progresīvie (PRO)

It won 10 seats in 2022 and 10 in 2026. It is a party in the 2026 Latvian parliamentary election, held on 3 October.

History

The party was established on 25 February 2017, growing out of a social-democratic NGO founded in 2011. It won 2.63% in 2018 and no seats, 6.23% and 10 seats in 2022, and 7.98% and 10 seats in 2026. In the 2024 European Parliament election it won 7.53% and one seat, and in the 2025 Riga City Council election 16.62% and 11 seats. It joined the Siliņa coalition government in September 2023 and left it in May 2026, returning to opposition.

Positions

The party calls itself social democratic and green. Its platform, as Wikipedia summarises it, calls for the Nordic welfare model, progressive taxation, environmental responsibility and anti-corruption measures, gender and LGBT equality, and well-being measures in place of GDP. It is a member of the European Green Party and sits with the Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament. Wikipedia places it centre-left to left-wing.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia: The Progressives (Latvia)