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MERA25 | |
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Leader | Julijana Zita |
Founder | Julijana Zita Johannes Fehr Nicolá Ramminger Thomas Kellermann [1] |
Founded | 13 November 2021 |
Membership (2024) | 2.500 (claimed) [2] |
Ideology |
Progressivism
[3] Green New Deal [4] European federalism [5] Direct democracy [6] |
European affiliation | Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) |
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www.mera25.de | |
MERA25 ( Greek: Μέτωπο Ευρωπαϊκής Ρεαλιστικής Ανυπακοής, German: Europäische realistische Ungehorsamfront) is a German political party. It is part of the pan-European political movement DiEM25. The party was founded as Democracy in Europe ( German: Demokratie in Europa) on 28 November 2020, [7] before changing its name to MERA25 in reference to the Greek party of the same name in November 2021. [8]
DiEM25 was founded as a pan-European movement at the Volksbühne in Berlin on 9 February 2016. In 2017, its members voted to participate in the 2019 European Parliament election by forming either national parties, groupings of electors, or partnerships with existing parties.
In Germany, a grouping of electors named "Democracy in Europe – DiEM25" ( German: Demokratie in Europa – DiEM25) was founded on 2 June 2018 in Frankfurt am Main to implement this decision. A party conference on 24 November 2018 elected Laura Müller and Jasper Finkeldey as chairpersons of the new organisation.
The group fielded two candidates in the 2019 European Parliament election in Germany, Yanis Varoufakis and Daniela Platsch [9], and was supported by Democracy in Motion and Mut. [10] [11] It won 130,072 votes in the election (a vote share of 0.3 percent), failing to gain any of Germany's 96 seats in the European Parliament. [12]
On 28 November 2020, the group was re-established as a formal political party under the name Democracy in Europe. [13] On 13 November 2021 the party was re-established again, adopting the name of the Greek electoral wing MέΡA25.
MERA25 ran for the first time in a state parliamentary election on 14 May 2023 for the election to the Bremen parliament. The campaign was financed exclusively by individual donations and focused on the topic of housing. [14] [15] The party accounted for 0.6% of all valid second votes. [16]
For MERA25, social policies and radical democracy are the focus of its political orientation. The key points of the party program lists as follows: [17] [18]
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