Varoufakis launches a new party in the wake of DiEM25
(B2) Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis launched a new left-wing party in Athens on Monday (March 26) with a view to the legislative elections planned in Greece in September 2019, in the wake of DiEM25 created in several European countries. Europe.

Iconoclast
« We won't mince our words », Underlined during a press conference Yanis Varoufakis, 57, seated in front of a red neon representation of the logo of his party, MeRA25, on the stage of a theater in central Athens. Committing to “ bring realistic hope » in his country, Yanis Varoufakis, now professor of economics at the University of Athens, pointed out that MeRA25, “ European Realistic Disobedience Front by 2025 ", is part of DiEM25, "Movement for Democracy in Europe 2025", the transnational and anti-establishment movement that he largely contributed to launching in early 2016.
Towards debt restructuring
For Greece, Yanis Varoufakis suggests through MeRA25 a restructuring of the debt, tax cuts and the creation of a public company responsible for managing the debt of bank customers and protecting over-indebted customers from property foreclosures. Relations between Mr. Varoufakis and Greece's creditors (EU and IMF) had often been tense during the six months he was Finance Minister, from January to July 2015, in Alexis' first Syriza government. Tsipras, before the turning point of 'rigor'. A few days after the resignation of Mr. Varoufakis, Alexis Tsipras, under pressure from creditors, agreed to sign a third aid plan for the country, against all of Syriza's electoral commitments.
A plural left
Made up of " people from the left and from liberalism, Greens and feminists ", DiEM25 calls for "a new pact" for the Old Continent hit by the fallout from the economic crisis that began ten years ago. It is intended to be a " radical European movement aimed at fighting the establishment that governs Europe ". It has no leader. In the coming months, its members, in countries where the movement is active (1), will elect a secretary general, nominate candidates for the Europeans and develop an electoral platform for each country.
(with AFP)
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(1) France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal, Poland and Lithuania.