In 2009, British foreign secretary David Miliband has criticized Conservative Chairman Eric Pickles' decision to secure an alliance with TB/LNNK in the ECR group "despite the fact that its members attend commemorations for the Waffen-SS".
The document was signed by the Conservative Party of the UK, the Czech Civic Democratic Party, the Polish Law and Justice, the Bulgarian Order, Law and Justice, the Belgian Lijst Dedecker and Latvia's For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK.
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Bērziņš was elected to the 2010 election as one of two For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK representatives on the joint National Alliance list that the party shared with All For Latvia!.
Ušakovs' inauguration was marred by a small controversy: the previous mayor, Jānis Birks of the right-wing, national conservative For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK party, which failed to win any seats, did not participate in the traditional ceremony of passing the chain of office to the new mayor.