    the new era party (, jl) was a centre-right political party in latvia. founded in 2002, the party merged with civic union and society for other politics to form unity in 2011. new era is a member of the european people's party (epp) and its meps in the european parliament sat in the european people's party (previously epp-ed). ==history== new era was founded on 2 february 2002 by einars repÅ¡e, a politician and central banker who was very popular at that time. originally, most of the party candidates were political unknowns led by repÅ¡e. in its first election campaign, new era promised to combat corruption and tax evasion. according to new era promises, eliminating tax evasion would increase latvia's state budget by 400 million latvian lats (about 750 million united states dollars), allowing for increased funding for a variety of programs and also for tax cuts. running on this platform, the party won 23.9% of the popular vote and 26 out of 100 seats in the 2002 legislative election and became the largest party in the saeima, the parliament of latvia. it formed a coalition government with 3 other parties, with the new era leader einars repÅ¡e as the prime minister. in january 2004, the coalition fell apart and repÅ¡e resigned.
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