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A Last Generation activist tapes his hand to a street.
The group has now given up such sticking activities - and has now announced its candidacy for the European Parliament (archive photo).
© Swen Pförtner/dpa
Since 2022, the climate group has primarily protested with blockades.
Now she has a new plan.
Berlin - The protest group Last Generation wants to run in the 2024 European elections.
This was announced by spokeswoman Carla Hinrichs.
“Now we want to bring our resistance from the streets into parliament,” said Hinrichs in an online conference.
The group is known as those who don't mince words.
Now it's time to shake up the EU Parliament.
The Last Generation is the “voice of those willing to survive,” added Henning Jeschke, one of the group’s founders.
It is very close for the intended candidacy in the European elections in June.
Many would have said that it couldn't work anymore.
But a vote share of around 0.5 percent is enough in the European elections, which is around 250,000 votes.
Now there is initially a “community challenge”: an attempt is being made to find 100 volunteers for the campaign internally and to collect 50,000 euros, said Jeschke.
The group, founded in 2021 after a hunger strike, had mainly organized road blockades with glued activists for two years as a protest against what they considered to be too slow a climate policy.
She recently announced that she would forego this form of protest.
dpa