Stability! faction collapses in Riga city council as Andrejs Kozlovs switches sides

The Stability! (Stabilitātei!) party no longer has a faction on Riga city council after councillor Andrejs Kozlovs joined the Sovereign Power/Young Latvians Union faction, according to the council website, LSM, the Latvian public broadcaster, reported. A faction needs at least three councillors from one party, and Stability! is now represented only by Nikolajs Kabanovs and Jakovs Pliners.

Pliners has decided to give up his seat for health reasons. He will be replaced by Valentīns Jeremejevs, board chairman of the People's Power (Tautas varas spēks) party.

What Kozlovs said

In a Facebook post, Kozlovs said he would continue his political work in the Sovereign Power party after its leader, Jūlija Stepaņenko, invited him to join. “The political team changes, but my principles and my attitude to the responsibility I took on before voters do not,” he wrote.

From five seats to two

Stability! won five seats on the council in the 2025 local elections. Kozlovs took his seat after the mandate of party leader Aleksejs Rosļikovs was annulled. Former boxer Mairis Briedis left the faction in August 2025 and Vitālijs Petrovs followed in February this year.

The party won 11 seats in the Saeima, Latvia's parliament, at the 14th Saeima election, but its parliamentary group broke up six months before this autumn's election. In the vote for the 15th Saeima it took 1.997%, short of the 5% threshold for parliament and just below the 2% needed for state party funding.