The Political Union of Economists , abbreviated to TPA, was a centre-left

Centre-left

Centre-left is a political term that describes individuals, political parties or organisations such as think tanks whose ideology lies between the centre and the left on the left-right spectrum...

 political party in Latvia

Latvia

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 during the 1990s. It was strongly pro-economic liberalisation. It was founded in February 1994, and was lead by Edvīns Kibe.

The party was founded as an eight-deputy split from Harmony for Latvia after the 1993 election

Latvian parliamentary election, 1993

Elections for the 5th Saeima, the parliament of Latvia were held on 5 June and 6 June 1993, the first parliamentary elections in Latvia after its independence was restored in 1991....

; the other part became the left-wing National Harmony Party

National Harmony Party

The National Harmony Party was a political party in Latvia.The party identified itself as a social-democratic party. It supported further liberalisation of the citizenship law by granting citizenship to each non-citizen who had lived in Latvia for at least 10 years...

. The TPA joined the coalition government led by Māris Gailis

Maris Gailis

Māris Gailis is a Latvian political figure. He served as Prime Minister of Latvia between September 15, 1994 and December 21, 1995.-References:...

 in September 1994, after Latvian Way

Latvian Way

Latvian Way was a centre-right liberal party in Latvia. It merged with Latvia's First Party to form the Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way in 2007.It described itself as "a liberal party defending people's freedom to shape their own lives"...

 refused to increase agricultural tariff

Tariff

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s. In the 1995 election

Latvian parliamentary election, 1995

Elections for 6th Saeima, the parliament of Latvia were held on September 30 and October 1, 1995. There were lists of candidates from 19 political parties. The voter participation was 72.65%, with 965,339 out of 1,328,779 eligible voters casting votes....

, the party won 1.5% of the vote: failing to cross the 5% election threshold

Election threshold

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to win any seats.