The party was founded in 2013 by the former
Prime Minister of Latvia Einars Repše. Internationally the party is a full member of the
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party, a grouping of
centrist and liberal parties from across Europe, since April 2013. On 29 November 2014
Juris Pūce was elected as the new chairperson and a new political manifesto was adopted. With the adoption of the new manifesto, the party defined itself as a liberal party that "appreciates and values" individual freedom and equal treatment before the law regardless of nationality, race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, or physical and mental abilities. Later on the party defined itself as representing classical or
market liberalism. Ahead of the
2018 parliamentary election, LA formed an alliance with
Movement For! and
Growth, called "
Development/For!". This alliance, led by
Artis Pabriks, won 12% of the votes and 13 of 100 seats in the
Saeima. It joined the
Kariņš cabinet, taking three ministerial posts, including
Juris Pūce as minister of environmental protection and regional development as well as Artis Pabriks as defence minister and deputy prime minister. Artis Pabriks and member of the European Parliament
Ivars Ijabs, who had been members of the "Development/For!" alliance, but not For Latvia's Development, joined the party in October 2019. In the snap
2020 Riga City Council election, Development/For! teamed up with
The Progressives to form a common list, which received the most votes an led the ruling coalition. However, in late of 2022, The Progressives and Movement For! terminated their cooperation with LA and their 3 deputies switched to opposing Mayor
Mārtiņš Staķis. Eventually, as Staķis was replaced by
Vilnis Ķirsis in August 2023, The Progressives joined the opposition as well, but Movement For! remained in the new coalition. After disappointing results from the
2022 parliamentary election, in which the alliance failed to return its parliamentary seats, the alliance was technically dissolved, though it remains registered to maintain state funding under the legal name of
PLI (an abbreviation of the initials of the names of the former constituent parties). ==Election results==