Kozlov leaves Stabilitātei!, ending its Riga council faction

Andrejs Kozlov’s departure from Stabilitātei! has ended the party’s faction in Riga City Council, LSM reports, citing information on the municipality’s website.

A council faction must include at least three deputies from the same party. Stabilitātei! now has only two council members, Nikolajs Kabanovs and Jakovs Pliners. Pliners has decided to give up his mandate for health reasons. His replacement will be Valentīns Jeremejevs, chairman of the board of the Tautas varas spēks party.

Kozlov said in a Facebook post that he would continue his political work with Suverēnā vara, whose leader, Jūlija Stepaņenko, invited him to join. He has also joined the Suverēnā vara/Apvienība Jaunlatvieši faction in the council. “The political team is changing, but my principles and my sense of responsibility to voters remain the same,” he said.

Stabilitātei! won five seats in Riga’s 2025 municipal elections. The party began to lose members after winning 11 seats in the 14th Saeima elections. Its parliamentary faction also broke up, six months before the 15th Saeima elections. In this autumn’s parliamentary election, the party fell just short of the 2% threshold required to receive state funding.

The party’s decline accelerated after its leader, Aleksejs Rosļikovs, gave a speech in the Saeima on June 5, 2025, and was removed from the chamber. The State Security Service opened a case against him over alleged assistance to Russia in activities directed against Latvia and incitement to hatred. The service briefly detained him and barred him from leaving the country.

Rosļikovs later used permission to travel to Switzerland to flee to Belarus and is now wanted. His Riga council mandate, won in the 2025 municipal elections, was annulled, and Kozlov took his place. Former boxer Mairis Briedis left the Stabilitātei! council faction in August 2025, followed by Vitālijs Petrovs in February 2026.