Zaļo un Zemnieku Savienība (ZZS)

It won 16 seats in 2022 and none in 2026. It is a party in the 2026 Latvian parliamentary election, held on 3 October.

History

The alliance was established on 25 July 2002 to contest parliamentary elections. Indulis Emsis became Prime Minister in 2004 and Raimonds Vējonis President in 2015-2019. It peaked at 21 seats in 2014 and won 16 in 2022. The Latvian Green Party left in 2022, leaving the Latvian Farmers' Union, For Latvia and Ventspils, and the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party. In 2026 it won 4.46% of the vote and no seats. Wikipedia names Edgars Tavars as formal leader and describes Aivars Lembergs as its leading figure and chief financial supporter.

Positions

Wikipedia describes the alliance as agrarian, green and conservative, and Eurosceptic. It stands for a sustainable and ecological economic policy and, according to Wikipedia, opposes economic liberalism in favour of more redistributive policies.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia: Union of Greens and Farmers