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Party for Rejuvenation Research

Party for Rejuvenation Research
Partei für Verjüngungsforschung
LeaderFelix Werth
Vice-LeaderNicolai Kilian, Karl-Friedrich Harter
Federal TreasurerAndrea Beyerlein
Founded2015
HeadquartersBerlin
Membership321[1]
IdeologySingle-issue politics
Colours  Black
  White
  Green
  Red
Bundestag
0 / 630
State Parliaments
0 / 1,855
Website
verjuengungsforschung.de

The Party for Rejuvenation Research (German: Partei für Verjüngungsforschung), formerly the Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research (German: Partei für schulmedizinische Verjüngungsforschung) and originally the Party for Health Research (German: Partei für Gesundheitsforschung), is a single-issue political party in Germany that seeks to accelerate the development of medicine to reverse the aging process.

Political positions

The Party for Rejuvenation Research is a single-issue political party in Germany founded in 2015 with the goal of accelerating the development of regenerative medicine against aging, enabling people to live indefinitely long healthy lives. According to the party, their purpose is to prevent the suffering caused by age-related disease and death. Besides that, the party also highlights the economic benefit of curing aging, as the costs for age-related illness and care would be eliminated.[2]

2023 election poster in Berlin reading: "Where do you want to live in 800 years?"

The party seeks to increase the number and size of pertinent research facilities, and to expand education and training of professionals in those fields.[2] The party also strives to raise public interest in rejuvenation research in order to cause large established parties to focus more on this subject.

The party adopts a neutral position on subjects that do not immediately pertain to rejuvenation research.

Organization

Party leader Felix Werth

The incumbent party leader is biochemist Felix Werth from Berlin.[3]

As of July 2022, the party has regional branches in all 16 German states.[4]

Renaming

The party has carried the name Party for Health Research since its founding in 2015, but changed its name to Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research on 27 November 2022.[5]

On 11 October 2024, the party was renamed again to Party for Rejuvenation Research.[6]

Elections

As of 30 March 2021, the party has participated in eight state elections as well in the 2017 German federal election and the 2019 European Parliament election, achieving the following results:

Election results

European Parliament

Election List leader Votes % Seats +/– EP Group
2019 Felix Werth 70,869 0.19 (#23)
0 / 96
New
2024 18,935 0.05 (#32)
0 / 96
Steady 0

Literature

  • Anne Küppers: Partei für Gesundheitsforschung (Gesundheitsforschung). In: Frank Decker, Viola Neu (publisher): Handbuch der deutschen Parteien. 3rd edition, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-17995-3, p. 440–441.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Häufig gestellte Fragen". Partei für schulmedizinische Verjüngungsforschung. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Programme of the Party for Rejuvenation Research". Partei für Verjüngungsforschung. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  3. ^ Kleine Parteien vor der Berlin-Wahl taz 2016
  4. ^ "Landesverbände". Partei für Verjüngungsforschung (in German). Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  5. ^ "Election program for the Berlin state election on 12 February 2023". Partei für Verjüngungsforschung. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  6. ^ "Parteiname". Partei für Verjüngungsforschung (in German). Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  7. ^ "Diese 21 Parteien sind zur Abgeordnetenhauswahl zugelassen". RBB-online.de (in German). Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  8. ^ "Landtagswahl 2021 - Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg".
  9. ^ "Landtagswahl 2021 - Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg".