Alliance of Young Latvians (Latvian: Apvienëba Jaunlatvieà ¡i, AJ) is a Latvian political party founded on February 11, 2023. The party board includes former members of For Each and Every One (now Platform 21) Rà «dolfs BrÃÂmanis, Edgars DÃÂrznieks and Artà «rs KlÃÂbahs. The party claims to stand for Latvian protectionism, a popularly elected president and reduction of bureaucracy and states that Latvia "must be independent from the East or the West". The party had one member of the Saeima, former member of For Stability! Glorija Grevcova.
BrÃÂmanis, a former charge- d'affaires at the Latvian embassy in the United Arab Emirates, is the main suspect in case about a possible embezzlement scheme involving the service apartments of the foreign service. Public Broadcasting of Latvia also reported that BrÃÂmanis might have engaged in the residency permits-for-investment business while still being in the diplomatic service.
In the 2024 elections to the European Parliament, the party fielded the Russophone homemaker Olga ÃÂerà Âavska (), who previously had not been active in politics. In the campaigning period, Latvia's State Security Service investigated her statements that were considered to be anti-Latvian and pro-Russian. In mid-June 2024, she defected to Belarus, claiming 'electoral falsification' and 'death threats.' The propaganda of the regime of Alexander Lukashenko has used her to publish content that attacks Latvian government and other institutions by using pro-Russian narratives (which is similar to the case of the Polish judge Tomasz Szmydt who defected to Belarus in May 2024).
In Belarus, ÃÂerà Âavska joined former COVID-19 misinformation activist RomÃÂns Samuüs (). He had defected from Latvia to Belarus in 2022, after having failed to win a mandate to the Latvian Parliament. In Belarus, Samul acts as a leader of a group of disillusioned Russophones from Latvia for the sake of anti-Latvian propaganda.
For the 2025 municipal elections, AJ formed a coalition with Sovereign Power with other parties including the Latvian Russian Union also being represented.