Action Party (Latvia)

[4] The most prominent representatives of the organization were Normunds Grostiņš (former chairman of the board), artist Juris Dimiters, publicist Jānis Kučinskis and Viktors Dinēvičs.

In the 2005 Riga City Council elections, "Eurosceptics", remaining organisationally independent, participated in the joint list of "Dzimtene" and LSP, without obtaining any mandate.

The leader of the party, Ruslans Pankratovs, was detained by the State Security Service of Latvia in August 2022 on suspicion of public support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine and evasion of sanctions placed on Russia.

[9] In the 2019 European Parliament election in Latvia, the party ran on a pro-Russian message, with the slogan “We shall force Europe to recognize Crimea as ours!” in Russian.

On its electoral list, it included the members of the centre-left National Harmony Party such as Igor Melnikov and Ruslan Pankratov, as well as the Latvian Russian Union - Einārs Graudiņš and Oleg Nikiforov.

[2] The party is against the existence of the European Union, and supports strict immigration control, opposing exceptions for asylum seekers and refugees.

Einārs Graudiņš, the party's head of the electoral list for the 2019 European Parliament election in Latvia, said: “The question that has not been addressed yet is of the illegal immigration.