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Latvian ex-president's Reform Party to disband: media

Xinhua, March 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

Latvia's centrist Reform Party, founded by former President Valdis Zatlers, has decided to disband.

Vjaceslavs Dombrovskis, a current member and former leader of the Reform Party until 2013, broke the news to Baltic News Service, saying that he might join the Unity Party, but that it was necessary to finish the disbanding of the Reform Party first.

Dombrovskis indicated that the decision to disband the Reform Party was taken because of an insufficient number of members.

Founded in 2011 by Zatlers, the Reform Party proposed an ambitious reform of Latvia's political system and won the second highest number of mandates in that year's general election.

Since then, however, the Reform Party has seen its popularity rating plummet, and the party did not take part in Latvia's last parliamentary election. Endit