The time has come to vote on our Coordinating Collective, with six seats up for election, and we call on all DiEM25 members to have their say.

Coordinating Collective members coordinate our movement to ensure it remains a relevant and powerful force in the fight for people-power in Europe. Their responsibilities range from planning and maintaining processes and deadlines, and developing and running strategies, policy-formation and political campaigns, to acting as political representatives of our common project.

DiEM25 is a feminist movement promoting gender balance in all its bodies. At least 50 percent of Coordinating Collective members will be women.

This is your chance to shape the future of our movement by electing the people who will guide us in the next year, so please make your voice heard.

From the current Coordinating Collective, the six members whose mandate continues until next summer are: Yanis Varoufakis, Erik Edman, Ivana Nenadović, Francesca Martinez, Nils Belliot and Evi Petsangouraki. The six members whose seats are up for election this time are: Julijana Zita, Danae Stratou, Defne Dalkara, Jochen Schult, Julia May Moore and Patrizia Pozzo.

We asked each candidate to tell us why they want to be elected, and how their experience can add value to the CC and boost the its mission to grow and coordinate the movement. Here is a snippet of what they said, while there are further questions and answers on each that you can find here.

Danae Stratou

After having served the last term as part of the CC I would like to continue the work now that I’ve gained some experience and feel I could contribute and help the movement grow stronger at a crucial time for Europe and indeed the world.

Julia May Moore

Following the EU election campaign, the DiEM25 movement and political aspirations are even more crucial on the world platform than at any other time.

The aims and objectives of this first transnational movement are bold, courageous and progressively radical. Working with a multi-national team extends my previous professional experience in international capacity-building and teaching.

Federico Dolce

The more we grow, the greater the challenge DiEM25 faces, but I believe that the Italian experience can contribute to achieving an effective and productive goal for the movement and its campaign. Here we face one of the biggest challenges to the oligarchic system, and this can be one of the biggest battlegrounds for the future of the whole of Europe.

I believe I can make an important and decisive contribution to the coordination of the movement in the coming years, both through my professional experience and political activism.

Defne Dalkara

I would like to continue to be part of the CC because after my two years in the CC and a chance to exchange with other left-wing groups, I have come to really notice how unique Diem25 is structurally. We are not a combination of independent organizations that communicate once in a while during the year. Every step we take is the result of a pan-European effort that is full of real challenges. We really take steps internationally together, no one else to my knowledge is involved in such an elaborated (and crucial) effort on the European left. As someone from a developing country and a committed internationalist it really means a lot to me that such group exists in Europe that is also strongly anti-imperialist.

Julijana Zita

I strongly believe that DiEM25 as a movement has yet much to do and be part of the resistance that the people of Europe will have to create, in order to overcome the dark times ahead of us. Organising cross boarders, will be important to increase the pressure on the political establishment and advocate for peace against all the warmongering that parties, the military industrial complex and organisations such as NATO are practicing.

Nour Hariri

For years, I have wanted to be part of this movement. As someone deeply interested in and studying philosophy (PhD), I find that the movement’s philosophy aligns perfectly with my own. The goals of the movement resonate with my personal objectives and aspirations. As a Syrian German, I feel a profound responsibility toward the causes affecting the Middle East and my homeland. At the same time, I have developed a deep appreciation and sense of responsibility for Germany and Europe. Having made Germany my home, I am passionate about contributing to the democratization of Europe. I believe that my unique perspective, shaped by diverse cultural and social experiences, can add value to this movement.

Filipe Medeiros

I feel, deeply, that Europe (not just the EU!) and the world in general is walking down a very bad path. In the short term, with the rise of authoritarianism and neofascism. In the long term, with the climate and ecological breakdown, paired with capitalism’s (and neofeudalism’s) claws that have managed to tightly grip not only our societies but also our minds.

Carolina Rehrmann

I want to join the DiEM25 Coordinating Collective because I can no longer sit by and watch Europe unravel. As a humanist, feminist, German-Greek, and conflict researcher, I’ve experienced firsthand the hypocrisy and dissonance between the EU’s (and, on a broader level, the “West’s”) glorified self-image and its horrifying actions.

Fatiha Talahite

I want to be elected first to broaden my scope of action and my integration into the movement and to understand how to contribute to its development. I can contribute my knowledge as an economics researcher, having carried out research on topics such as socialist economies and post-socialist transformation, feminist economics, the economies of the Muslim world, oil economies and extractivism, with a particular focus on the issues of money and property rights.

Mohamad Nasser

We are ruled by a few powerful people who threaten to break apart Europe. This affects not only us, the citizens of Europe, but also people beyond our borders. Our actions now will have far reaching consequences.

To stop this slide towards disintegration, as seen in polls across Europe , and to protect our livelihoods and the livelihoods of those we care about; we need to overthrow the oligarchs and democratize Europe. We must transform the system.

José Aurelio Gálvez Suárez

I have experience organizing, and I have the time and energy. I also hope to contribute with my ethics, by keeping DiEM’s left-wing, progressive profile, with humanistic realism and focus on real politics.

I will be reminding the collective that empowering Europe and its people will not be achieved by legislating only. Power lies also in geopolitical leverage achieved by creating or enhancing institutions, products and technology that provide real power and that will allows us to become truly independent from external actors.

Tom Yuval

For years I’ve been concerned about the state of democracy in Europe (not to mention the world at large), but right now things seem to be worse than they have been for decades, and it calls for more urgent, more engaged activism. Because of my personal background – an Israeli who has always opposed nationalism (including Israeli nationalism), who has some ties to the Arab world, and who is a citizen of and lives in Germany – my recent activism has focused on the ongoing atrocities committed by Israel, as well as on the incomprehensible support and collaboration Israel has been receiving from supposedly democratic states, and the suppression of free speech of those who try to defend human rights and democratic values.

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