Fact-check: claim about ZZS and farmers' protests only half true
A claim that the Greens and Farmers Union (ZZS) joined the government during protests by teachers, medics and farmers, and solved their problems within 100 days, has been found to be only partly accurate.
A widely circulated claim states that the Greens and Farmers Union (ZZS) entered the Latvian government while teachers, medical workers and farmers were protesting in the streets, and that the party resolved the issues raised by these groups within 100 days.
A fact-check found this claim to be only a half-truth. In reality, teachers' protests took place half a year before ZZS joined the government, while farmers' protests occurred half a year after the party was already part of the government. This means the timeline suggested by the claim does not match the actual sequence of events.
The fact-check also challenged the second part of the claim — that ZZS resolved all the main problems raised by these professional groups within 100 days. It was concluded that not all of the key issues were actually resolved within that timeframe.
Overall, the fact-check indicates that the widely shared narrative about ZZS's role in addressing the protests is oversimplified and inaccurate, conflating the timing of different sector protests with the party's actual presence in government.
