These are not parties, but cliques and groups of individual personalities 0 15

Former Saeima deputy Ilma Čepāne, who has been retired from active politics for several years, attempted to answer the question of why Latvia is lagging behind in an interview with another former politician Andrei Panteleev on the jauns.lv portal: "It's hard to say... I think one of the problems is the multi-party system. One of the fathers of the Satversme, Felix Cielens, lamented in 1921 from the Saeima podium that in Latvia, unlike old Europe, parties are cliques and groups of individual persons. One hundred and five years have passed, and where are we now?!"