MeRA25
The European Realistic Disobedience Front, or MeRA25, is a left-wing Greek political party founded in 2018. Its founder and secretary is former Syriza MP and Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. MeRa25 is part of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, the European Spring and the Progressive International.Background
MeRA25 was founded on 27 March 2018 by former Greek Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis. The party was presented during a special event in Athens.In December 2018 former Syriza member and MEP, Sofia Sakorafa, joined the party.
The party contested the 2019 European Parliament election. It narrowly failed to win a European Parliament seat. It gained 9 seats and 3.44% of the vote in the 2019 Greek legislative election.Name
Without capitalisation, the letters of ΜέΡΑ25, , spell a Greek word for "day", mirroring Latin and thus showing the connection with DiEM25.Positions
The party presents itself as an alliance of 'Left, Green and Liberal Greeks', standing on the grounds European internationalism, economic rationality and social emancipation. It plans to introduce a 'European Green New Deal', as a solution to the postmodern version of the Great Depression. In Greece, its core 7 legislative policy proposals are:
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