Der Wandel

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Wandel
Leader Fayad Mulla
Founded7 September 2012
HeadquartersStuckgasse 9/1b, Vienna
Ideology Progressivism [1]
Egalitarianism
Post-capitalism
Environmentalism
Pro-Europeanism
Political position Left-wing [2]
European affiliation Democracy in Europe Movement 2025
Party of the European Left (partner)
Website
https://www.derwandel.at/

Wandel (English: Change) is an Austrian left-wing and progressive political party led by Fayad Mulla. [3] It is part of the pan-European coalition DiEM25. [4]

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Background

The party was launched in 2012 [5] as a progressive, anti-capitalist and egalitarian movement. Its positions are detailed in the "Demokratische Moderne (English: Democratic Modernity)" manifesto, which emphasizes on abolishing global capitalism and establishing a democratic economy, fair to all people. [6] Despite being anti-capitalist, the party's leader has stated that the party does not support socialism either, but rather seeks to take some elements from both socialism and capitalism in order to create a new alternative system, tentatively called "neo-socialism", [7] which shares characteristics with the socioeconomic concept of economic democracy.

Positions and proposals

The party's proposals include: [8]

Electoral performance

2013 Austrian legislative election

Participating only in Vienna and Upper Austria, the party obtained 0.07% of the vote.

2014 European Parliament election

As part of the Europa anders coalition with the KPÖ, Pirate Party, and independents, they received a combined 2.14% of the vote, which was not enough to receive a seat.

2019 European Parliament election

In November 2018, the party announced an alliance with Yanis Varoufakis' DiEM25 for the European Parliament Election. [9] The party's political director Daniela Platsch was second on the joint list led by Varoufakis. The party did not win any seats.

2019 Austrian legislative election

The party ran in the snap legislative elections held in September 2019, obtaining approximately 0.5% of the vote.

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  2. "Kandidaten für NR-Wahl in Vorarlberg fix". ORF (in German). 2019-08-02. Retrieved 2019-08-08.
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  5. ""Wir wollen auf den Zettel" - derStandard.at". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  6. "Democratic Modernity". der Wandel (in German). 2015-10-05. Archived from the original on 2019-02-20. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  7. Mulla, Fayad (10 September 2019). "Wandel-Spitzenkandidat Mulla: "Die Menschen sehnen sich nach einer linken Partei"". Der Standard .
  8. "Zukunftsprogramm". der Wandel (in German). Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  9. "European Spring" . Retrieved 10 June 2019.