Latvian Political Monitor

From@RaivisZeltits

Speech at @austsaule protest against mass immigration. “The Latvian state proclaimed on 18 November 1918 was established by uniting the historical Latvian lands and based on the immutable state will of the Latvian nation and its inalienable right to self-determination, in order to guarantee the existence and development of the Latvian nation, its language and culture through the centuries.” From the preamble of the Constitution. The Latvian Constitution is the foundation of all our state laws. Nothing may contradict it, and politicians must serve the intention expressed in it. The Latvian people now face three issues that directly threaten the existence of the Latvian nation, its language and culture – the geopolitical threat from Russia, the birth-rate crisis, and the third – mass immigration. The geopolitical threat from Russia is not of our making – we can strengthen alliances and our army, prepare for the worst. The birth-rate crisis is our government’s responsibility – although all Western countries face a significant decline in birth rates and none has managed to find comprehensive solutions, nothing justifies the fact that our government is not seeking solutions at all. Mass immigration, meanwhile, is a unique threat, because it is a policy entirely chosen by our government. It is a preventable threat that our government has chosen to place on the shoulders of our people. It is a threat that countless times has shown its economic, social and cultural consequences in other Western countries. “New Unity” has not only seen the rake and decided to step on it, but has even specially ordered this rake from other countries and jumped on it with all its heart and with all its inclusive tolerance. In 1968, the British conservative politician Enoch Powell gave a speech after which his political career was ended. He expressed concerns about immigration and its consequences. At that time, the indigenous people of the British Isles were an absolute majority in their country – the situation of the English was many times more favorable than the situation of the Latvians at that time under the conditions of the USSR occupation. In Enoch Powell’s time, 50,000 immigrants from the third world entered Britain every year – that is the number that the “New Unity” government is currently letting into Latvia with residence permits. In 2023, 1.2 million immigrants entered Britain. In Birmingham, where Powell gave his speech, British natives are now 42%, and in London 36.8%. Any nation becoming a minority in its native land is a tragedy and always brings suffering. Just as in Latvia, the people of Britain never voted for the replacement of their people – it was imposed on them. The scheme is the same in all countries – first there is talk of temporary labour, then this labour becomes permanent communities, then family reunification takes place, and then left-wing politicians open the floodgates completely to let in millions of third-world people, citing the need for “diversity”. Parallel communities are formed that live in a world of values different from Western culture, which includes an increase in terrorism and crime. We must reject at the root the idea of immigration as a solution to the labour issue or a source of economic growth. It is like drinking sea water to quench thirst. Moreover, a large part of the professions where cheap labour is currently being brought in will already be replaced by artificial intelligence and automation in a few years. It is truly strange that people who call themselves modern and progressive have heard nothing about this and insist, for example, that food must be delivered by Indian citizens. It is also strange that people who call themselves left-wing and socialists insist on bringing in cheaper labour, which, by elementary economic logic, means stopping or even reducing wage growth for our own workers. On the other hand, it is also strange that our feminists write that they feel much safer in “diversity” when that diversity is made up of people from cultures where a woman is considered her husband’s property and where the raped woman is punished for rape. There one really must ask Mr. Freud for advice, because such self-destructiveness is difficult to explain with normal political logic. Returning to economics – in Britain, mass immigration has since 2001 cost British taxpayers £15 billion a year. In Sweden and Belgium, unemployment among third-country nationals was respectively 18.2 and 12.4 percentage points higher than among citizens. Dutch researchers have concluded that the total net costs of immigration average around €17 billion a year, which in 2016, as a result of the immigration crisis, reached €32 billion. 56% of all social benefits in Norway were paid to immigrants of Asian and African origin. In Sweden, immigrants make up 58% of recipients of paid social benefits, and the Swedish Pensions Agency warns that immigration will double state pension payments in the long term. In other words – a welfare system without borders is economic suicide. Europe’s indigenous people not only gain nothing from immigration – they pay extra for their own replacement, for terrorism and for the sexual exploitation of their daughters. The notorious rape gangs of Rotherham and other small English towns, which deliberately and with great hatred for Christians and white Europeans, sexually abused and tortured thousands of English girls. British authorities tried to hide these crimes to avoid accusations of racism and incitement to hatred. Already now we hear about the first cases of sexual harassment by immigrants in Latvia. Forgive “New Unity” politician Stalts, but we don’t find his jokes on April 1 about his party’s immigration policy funny. And of course it is true that the majority of Muslims are not terrorists. As long as we are talking about individuals and model citizens from other cultures, Latvia will cope. But Latvia will not cope with the import of an entire people and culture, with new communities and “no-go” zones. We cannot pretend and deny the facts either. Let Muslims live in peace in their own countries, and we sincerely wish that. But behind this is one religion, whose radical wing fundamentally denies Western cultural values here in Europe – the separation of state and religion, freedom of speech and women’s rights. It is a civilisation that throughout history has threatened the existence of European Christian civilisation as such. Only the radicals of one religious group have carried out several massacres in Europe in recent decades in the name of their God. It is the same religion whose representatives in Britain have much more often chosen to join the terrorist group “Islamic State” than to serve in the British army. Eastern cultures have a long memory – we too should not live in amnesia and ignore the truths of history and recent politics. When local Muslim community leaders tell us that we simply need to get to know Islam better, we must answer – thank you, we don’t want to! We respect you as people, we respect everyone’s religious feelings, but Latvia must remain Latvian, and that also applies to the streets of our capital and public space. There must be no mosque in Latvia! The founding fathers of the Constitution a century ago, when formulating the state’s attitude on the question of religious freedom, thought about the relationship between Catholicism and Protestantism in Latvia, not about the situation we are in now and where we must find answers ourselves. We do not have to leave the fight against the consequences of mass immigration to future generations – we must prevent it now! We do not want controlled immigration, but its halt. We do not want rape gangs, criminal gang fights on the streets, terrorist organisations, bankruptcy of the welfare system and economic decline. Enoch Powell’s warnings in Britain were not heeded – in the case of Western Europe one might still say that it was not known how great a catastrophe mass immigration policy would turn out to be. We have no such excuse. The immigration policy of Evika Siliņa’s government is either deliberate evil, stupidity, or both. In any case, this policy is the government’s responsibility. And we demand accountability! No to mass immigration! No to Islamisation! For a Latvian Latvia! 📷Juris Rozenbergs, https://t.co/6ZNzOJ1IGl References: https://t.co/sz2eFu647f https://t.co/twN7i02lCn https://t.co/fJaG5gijf8 https://t.co/TbWCwwbMgS https://t.co/RSvv36jweY https://t.co/aY7SDvgbkL https://t.co/oAv4VrtXkL https://t.co/OqOn2zq33D https://t.co/5DneDMRq6y

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From@austsaule

🔶 Around a hundred participants gathered at an ASL protest against mass immigration in front of the “New Unity” office, expressing condemnation of residence permit policy, weak border control, and student schemes. 🇱🇻 Thank you to everyone who took part! #AustošāSauleLatvijai #nēimigrācijai https://t.co/RskocxMiDb

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From@RaivisZeltits

We are the ones who must not be named. Voldemorts. If you mention me, you don't mention the party. If you mention the party, you call it an association. If you mention me and the party, you mix up the surname. Where have the 'fact checkers' and society's guardians against disinformation gone? https://t.co/4btnPAlbwq

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From@lindberga22

🔶️ On April 9 at 17:00 in Riga, Bastejkalns park, opposite the office of the political party “New Unity” (Zigfrīda Anna Meierovics Boulevard 12), a declared assembly and flash action will take place, organized by the party “Austošā Saule Latvijai” (Rising Sun for Latvia), to demand accountability for the immigration policy implemented in Latvia. 👎 Recent events in Riga, in the Pļavnieki district, where a collective Muslim prayer was organized in a public space, vividly highlight the consequences of the current government's policy. Such cases confirm that parallel cultural spaces are increasingly forming in Latvia, raising serious questions about cohesion, public safety, and the preservation of national identity. The government's leading party “New Unity” is politically responsible for this process. We demand: ❗️immediately stop issuing residence permits to third-country nationals from countries foreign to Western culture; ❗️end the fake student schemes; ❗️significantly strengthen Latvia's external border security. 🇱🇻 Latvia is not an experiment for uncontrolled immigration. The state's duty is to protect its people, its culture, and its security. We call on the party represented by the Prime Minister not to avoid responsibility and to give the public concrete answers. We call on Latvia's residents to participate in the action and express their position – peacefully, legally, and convincingly. 🇱🇻 For Latvia – national, secure, and prosperous!

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From@hmm_pff

Good morning! Will you go to the protest rally against migrants organized by @austsaule today?

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From@GiBlSv

How dilettantish, incompetent or dependent on JV can journalists be, if they still cannot say that the protest 'AGAINST mass immigration' is organized by the PARTY 'Austošā Saule Latvijai', not the society 'Austošā Saule' @ltvzinas

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From@liana_langa

That is why it is vitally important to adopt the Declaration on preventing the consequences of Russification and finally recognize that the Russian language in Latvia IS NOT A MINORITY LANGUAGE - because people are not Russified through minority languages. @VL_TBLNNK @EdmundsJurevics @EdvardsSmiltens @ArtursButans @IIndriksone @Progresivie https://t.co/TnueKjBqN6

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From@partijaMMN

Latvia still does not have a foreign policy based on the protection of national interests - so far it has been shaped by posing and reactions in ministers' social media. We are in a new era, where relations with countries must be built individually, not within the framework of alliances and international norms that have lost their power. https://t.co/y4xWZab0wf

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From@Finmin

✅️ The Ministry of Finance supports the Prime Minister's proposal to publish the list of Latvian companies that continue to trade with aggressor countries - Russia and Belarus. @EM_gov_lv @aseradens @EvikaSilina https://t.co/aJ1PHUyHNb

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From@EvikaSilina

The Saeima's call and the task I gave to the Ministry of Economics (@EM_gov_lv) and the Ministry of Finance (@Finmin) to publish the list of companies that continue cooperation with Russia and Belarus has still not been fulfilled. The public has the right to know, and such information must be publicly available. If there are obstacles to making the information public, I expect concrete solutions, not excuses.

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From@AlvisHermanis1

In the media and social networks, everyone is again arguing and boiling over whether others really want to make us a buffer zone, give it to the dragon, and – who knows how the foreigners will decide: will those good uncles defend us or not? Latvian men rather need to concentrate and urgently think how to accumulate maximum strength ourselves, so we can take care of ourselves. No one will ever make us a buffer zone if we don't allow it ourselves. It depends only on us. The fifth year of war is coming, but still no drone training school has been established. In Ukraine it has been proven that $1 invested in drones is equivalent to $35 invested in conventional weapons. In the MMN party we think – maybe don't wait while our soft politicians continue to engage in sabotage, and let the people themselves pool together to establish a private drone training center? With the aim of preparing some 500 new people. The MMN party could organize training instructors from Ukrainian veterans. We take that on ourselves. We have such channels. We would need help with premises and local people. If anyone is interested in participating and helping, write to our office. If there is support, then that school could be opened by September 1. WE CHANGE THE RULES.

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From@RaivisZeltits

It would be somewhat proportionate if pro-Kremlin Stepaņenko or Rosļikovs were spoken about at least half as contemptuously as about me or @AlvisHermanis1, but tonight on LTV not a single bad word about them. Interesting.

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