 the national harmony party (latvian: tautas saskaÅas partija, tsp; ) 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 present law only allows most of them to apply for citizenship through the process of naturalization). it also supported expanding education in minority languages (mainly russian). the roots of the tsp lay within the moderate wing of popular front of latvia, the latvian independence movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s. its leader, jÄnis jurkÄns, was the first minister of foreign affairs of newly independent latvia, from 1990 to 1992 when he had to leave the government for his stance on relations with russia. together with other activists, jurkÄns founded the harmony for latvia (saskaÅa latvijai - atdzimÅ¡ana tautsaimniecÄ«bai) alliance, which won 13 seats (out of 100) in the 1993 parliamentary election. the alliance split in 1994, with the free-market liberal wing becoming the political union of economists and the social-democratic wing becoming the national harmony party. jÄnis jurkÄns served as its leader from then until 2005, when he resigned. the party's last chairman was jÄnis urbanoviÄs. since its foundation, the party was popular with ethnically russian voters for its moderate views on issues of citizenship and state language. unlike the other parties popular with russians, it also had a considerable amount of ethnic latvians in its leadership and was attempting to bridge the gap between the two communities. it won 6 seats during [[latvian parliamentary election, 1995|1995 parliamentary e
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