MERA25

This article is about a German political party. For the Greek political party, see MeRA25.

MERA25 (Greek: Μέτωπο Ευρωπαϊκής Ρεαλιστικής Ανυπακοής, German: Europäische realistische Ungehorsamfront, lit. 'European realistic disobedience front') is a German political party. It is part of the pan-European movement, Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25). This political party was founded first as Democracy in Europe (German: Demokratie in Europa) on 28 November 2020,^[7] and then was renamed to MERA25 on 13 November 2021, in reference to the Greek party with the same name.^[8]

MERA25
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)
Website
www.mera25.de
Politics of Germany Political parties Elections

History

European Parliamentary elections

Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 was founded on 9 February 2016, at the Volksbühne, Berlin. In an internal Europe-wide online vote, Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 decided to establish another political association in Germany for the 2019 European elections. It was founded on 2 June 2018, in Frankfurt am Main under the name Democracy in Europe – DiEM25. Laura Müller and Jasper Finkeldey were elected as the two chairpersons at the General Assembly of Democracy in Europe – DiEM25 on 24 November 2018. The top candidate for the European elections in Germany was former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, with Daniela Platsch running as the second top candidate.^[9] The party was supported by Democracy in Motion and Mut.^[10][11] In the election, the party won 130,072 votes in Germany. and this corresponded to a vote share of 0.3 percent, but was not enough for any of the 96 German mandates for the European Parliament.^[12]

Party formation

On 28 November 2020, the association was founded as a party under the name Democracy in Europe.^[13] On 13 November 2021, the party was re-established and took 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

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

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.