The European Realistic Disobedience Front ( el, Μέτωπο Ευρωπαϊκής Ρεαλιστικής Ανυπακοής), or MeRA25 ( el, ΜέΡΑ25), is a left-wing Greek political party founded in 2018. Its founder and General Secretary is former

Syriza The Coalition of the Radical Left – Progressive Alliance ( el, Συνασπισμός Ριζοσπαστικής Αριστεράς – Προοδευτική Συμμαχία, Synaspismós Rizospastikís Aristerás – Proodeftikí Simachía), ...

MP and Finance Minister

Yanis Varoufakis Ioannis "Yanis" Varoufakis ( el, Ιωάννης Γεωργίου "Γιάνης" Βαρουφάκης, Ioánnis Georgíou "Giánis" Varoufákis, ; born 24 March 1961) is a Greek economist and politician. A former academic, he served as the Gree ...

. MeRa25 is part of the

Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, or DiEM25, is a pan-European political movement founded in 2016 by a group of Europeans, including former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and Croatian philosopher Srećko Horvat. The movement was of ...

(DiEM25), the European Spring and the

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Background

MeRA25 was founded on 27 March 2018 by former

Greek Minister of Finance The Ministry of National Economy and Finance ( el, Υπουργείο Εθνικής Οικονομίας και Οικονομικών) is the government department responsible for Greece's public finances. The incumbent minister is Kostis Hat ...

. The party's formation was announced during a special event in

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. In December 2018 former

member and MEP

Sofia Sakorafa Sofia Sakorafa ( el, Σοφία Σακοράφα, born 29 April 1957 in Trikala, Greece) is a Greek-Palestinian politician and former javelin thrower. She was a Member of the European Parliament for Greece as member of the political party MeRA25 ...

joined the party. The party contested the

2019 European Parliament election The 2019 European Parliament election was held between 23 and 26 May 2019, the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) represent more than 512 million peopl ...

as part of

DiEM25 The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, or DiEM25, is a pan-European political movement founded in 2016 by a group of Europeans, including former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and Croatian philosopher Srećko Horvat. The movement was o ...

. It narrowly failed to win a European Parliament seat. In the

2019 Greek legislative election Legislative elections were held in Greece on 7 July 2019. The elections were called by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on 26 May 2019 after the ruling Syriza party lost the European and local elections. They were the first national elections sin ...

s, MeRA25 gained 9 seats and 3.44% of the vote.

Name

Without capitalisation, the letters of ΜέΡΑ25, μέρα (mera), spell the Greek word for "day", mirroring the Latin '' diem'' and thus showing the party's connection with DiEM25.

Positions

The party presents itself as an alliance of '

Left Left may refer to: Music * ''Left'' (Hope of the States album), 2006 * ''Left'' (Monkey House album), 2016 * "Left", a song by Nickelback from the album ''Curb'', 1996 Direction * Left (direction), the relative direction opposite of right * L ...

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and Liberal Greeks', standing on the grounds European internationalism, economic rationality and social emancipation. It plans to introduce a 'European

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', as a solution to the Postmodernism, postmodern version of the Great Depression. In Greece, its core 7 legislative policy proposals are: *Restructuring the national debt * Reducing primary surpluses * Creating a public debt restructuring company * The general reduction of tax rates * Creating a public Digital currency, digital payment platform * Converting Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund, HRADF into a development bank * Respecting paid work and creative entrepreneurship

Election results

Hellenic Parliament

European Parliament

References

External links

Official websiteOfficial DiEM25 website
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