User:Courier New/MERA25

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MERA25
LeaderJulijana Zita
FounderJulijana Zita
Johannes Fehr
Nicolá Ramminger
Thomas Kellermann[1]
Founded13 November 2021
Membership (2024)2.500 (claimed)[2]
IdeologyProgressivism[3]
Green New Deal[4]
European federalism[5]
Direct democracy[6]
European affiliationDemocracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25)
Website
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]

History[edit]

2019 European Parliamentary elections[edit]

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]

Party formation[edit]

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]

Positions[edit]

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]

  • Social security with guaranteed pension, housing and health care
  • Workers' rights, such as a job guarantee, a 4-day week, a universal basic income and increased salaries in social and service jobs
  • the Green New Deal for climate neutrality by 2030 for investments in the economy, energy, construction and agricultural sectors and the labor market
  • Peace policy against increased military spending.
  • Justice for marginalised groups, private individuals towards the state and business, as well as states in the Global South. Migration should be decriminalised and Frontex should be abolished and replaced by search and rescue missions
  • The democratisation of the European Union, which the part currently believes as an institution with oligarchic features, whose policies evade the democratic control of its citizens.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "MERA25 – Organisation Bundesebene" (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  2. ^ Ana Alba Schmidt (2024-05-09). "MERA25 - Gemeinsam für Europäische Unabhängigkeit". Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
  3. ^ "Vielfältige Gesellschaft: Diskriminierung und Menschenfeindlichkeit bekämpfen" (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  4. ^ "Green New Deal: Gute Jobs & Klimaneutralität bis 2030" (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  5. ^ "Ausblick: Eine Verfassung für die europäische Republik" (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  6. ^ "Demokratie: Ein Mehiteeiß" (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  7. ^ MERA25 and DiEM25 in Germany (2020-12-09). "DiEM25 hat eine Partei! – MERA25 und DiEM25 in Deutschland" (in German). DiEM25. Archived from the original on 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-10-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "DiEM25 gründet Bundespartei MERA25" (in German). 16 November 2021. Archived from the original on 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  9. ^ Patricia Hecht (2018-05-29). Deutscher Flügel von DiEM25: Europa? Mit links. Die Tageszeitung: taz. ISSN 0931-9085. Archived from the original on 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  10. ^ Demokratie in Bewegung. "Europa ist unsere Zukunft" (in German). Retrieved 2019-04-05.[dead link]
  11. ^ "mut zur Europa Wahl" (in German). MUT. 31 March 2019. Archived from the original on 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  12. ^ Bundeswahlleiter (2019-05-27). "Europawahl 2019 Stimmverteilung" (in German). Archived from the original on 2019-06-10. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  13. ^ "DiEM25 hat eine Partei! – MERA25 und DiEM25 in Deutschland". DiEM25 (in German). 2020-12-09. Archived from the original on 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  14. ^ Jan Genin (2023-03-10). "Es ist soweit: Deine Unterstützung für die neue Bremer Solidarität – Jan Genin". DiEM25 (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  15. ^ David X. Noack (2023-05-15). "Bürger in Wut: Neu in Bremen – und bald auch bundesweit?". Neues Deutschland (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  16. ^ "Wahl zur Bremischen Bürgerschaft". wahlen-bremen.de (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Bremen. Archived from the original on 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  17. ^ "Ziele" (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  18. ^ "Für Vision und Verantwortung" (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
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