To become our official member, depending on your age, you must pay €12.50 per year if you're under 31, and €25 per year if you're over 31. This fee doesn't just support the system: it gives you real rights of participation, decision-making, and representation. A small annual fee to ensure complete independence from external lobbies and financiers. You pay little, but you really matter.
Help and concessions for those who are financially limited.
For those with a gross monthly income of less than €1,000, the initial annual fees are valid for two years; for those with a gross monthly income of less than €500, the initial annual fees are valid for three years. For those with no source of income, the initial annual fees are valid for four years. Of course, we will verify all declarations, certifications, and documentation to prevent any attempted fraud. Those who offer you better conditions than ours will sooner or later ask for much more, or will be funded by lobbies, the rich, and famous, and you will never be free and truly independent. Therefore, in our opinion, the money you spend to join us is a small price to pay for so many services, benefits, and advantages.
Please note: The sums above are for our official members, who can, if they wish, become our political representatives and run as our political representatives in our closed online primaries. If they get enough votes, they can represent us in real elections in the various countries, or alternatively, they can become our official representatives (to manage our system).
Registered users, with verified and guaranteed identity, pay exactly half the rate of our official members. Depending on your age, you pay €6.25 per year if you're under 31, and €12.50 per year if you're over 31. Again, for those with a gross monthly income of less than €1,000, the initial annual fees are valid for two years; for those with a gross monthly income of less than €500, the initial annual fees are valid for three years. For those with no source of income, the initial annual fees are valid for four years. Of course, even in these cases, we will verify all declarations, certifications, and documentation to prevent any attempted fraud. All our registered users, with verified and guaranteed identities, can truly participate in our fully shared leadership, and can therefore vote for our decisions and in our closed online primary elections. However, they are not entitled to run as our political representatives (to do so, they must first become official members, and then apply for and obtain a political representative profile). They do not have much potential for managing our system (to unlock all this potential, they must become our official members, and then apply for and obtain an official representative profile).
Please note: The financial data is used exclusively to verify eligibility for aid and will never be disclosed.
Does everyone pay an annual fee? All types of users of the higher levels mentioned above pay an annual fee, and there are no exceptions.
All other user types below official members or registered users with verified and guaranteed identities—and there are many—are not eligible for any annual fee discount and cannot join microgroups. They are not entitled to discounts because, in order to verify their financial status, they must meet the primary requirement of a user type with a verified and guaranteed identity. They cannot join our microgroups unless they are official members, who are therefore collective owners of our entire system. To implement true and fully shared leadership, a voting group will be created for each microgroup, in which our registered users, with verified and guaranteed identities, will be able to vote separately from our official members and higher user types.
Approximately 33% of the annual dues will be used to reward our top users (official members and higher-tier users) in cash, various goods, and services, including based on points earned. Approximately 33% of all funds received will be used for security measures, 33% will be spent on developing our system and local phases, and 1% will be reserved to reward our creators, creators, and the team of guarantors.
Questions and answers about annual fees for microgroups.
Do those who pay an annual fee to create or join a microgroup also have to pay additional annual fees? No, each personal profile, which is unique to each person, pays only one annual fee. Therefore, an annual fee paid in one of our microgroups, or to create one, is valid, according to specific rules, anywhere in our system and on our platforms. If an official member has already paid the annual fee, and it is valid according to the above rules, they can create the microgroup directly in their urban or rural area without having to pay anything; they simply need to become our official representative. If an official member requests and obtains other types of profiles, such as a political representative, an official representative, or a system profile (to invest and do business with us), they will not pay any annual fee for all their profiles linked, even invisibly, to their personal profile.
How can annual fees be paid? Annual fees can be paid online through our membership payment. Payment will soon be possible via internal or external bank transfer. When appropriate, annual fees can be collected locally by our official representatives, according to specific rules. Never, for any reason, give cash or money through a bank transfer to any person or entity without first verifying whether they are authorized to collect annual fees, donations, advertising contracts, and other payments on our behalf. To verify authorization, please submit a contact form, detailing your situation, in any language, to our security team at this link:
https://contacts.directdemocracys.org/contacts/specials-groups/securities-groups/security
and only after receiving our response, if it confirms that everything is in order, will you be able to proceed with the payment.
How do I prove I have financial problems and deserve an annual fee, for multiple years, based on my income? To obtain assistance with annual fees or technology assistance, you must carefully read this informative article at this link:
https://free.directdemocracys.org/law/rules/all-our-rules/rules-for-help/help-people-in-difficulty
Can I pay annual fees for multiple years? Given the age restrictions (up to age 31, you pay half the rate), everyone is free to pay as many annual fees as they wish. When a year expires, the next annual fee kicks in, based on the previous rules.
Will I be blocked if my annual fee expires? Unfortunately, our system automatically blocks anyone who is not up to date with their membership and annual fee, even though we warn you well in advance, and several times, that your annual fee is about to expire, and you have plenty of time to pay it without being blocked. However, if you are blocked, simply pay, or make a donation, the amount of the annual fee, and then send the payment code and the required information (be sure to enter your real name and surname, your username, your DirectDemocracyS unique identifier, and your email address correctly, which must be identical to the email address you registered with) to this link:
If everything is in order, your personal profile will be immediately unlocked, unless there are disciplinary sanctions, or other reasons, for blocking your profile.
If I'm a registered user with a verified and guaranteed identity, or a lower user level, can I pay the difference and obtain an Official Member level? To obtain a higher level of user status (for example, Official Member), several requirements must be met, including having paid the annual fee of €25, or, if you're under 31, €12.50. After paying the annual fee for an Official Member, the lower level of user status is extended for an additional year, but the annual Official Member fee only comes into effect after the official nomination and the start of the new opportunities. At this point, many will ask: what happens with any unused annual fees paid for the lower level of user status? A few weeks or months are added, based on the sums of the remaining periods, as the validity period of the new Official Member annual fee. We don't steal a single cent from anyone; we never have, and we never will.
Likewise, if you downgrade to a lower user category (for disciplinary reasons) , the remaining period, and the remaining sums, are added, at the user's request, to the annual fee period for the lower user category.
Unfortunately, annual fees are not refunded, not even partially, but they can be used to pay for other annual fees, whether lower or higher, on your own.
If an official member obtains additional profile types (official representative, political representative, system representative, and other types of profiles), will they also have to pay annual fees for the other profiles? We repeat this so everyone is clear: no, each official member pays a single, personal annual fee, and all other profiles linked (invisibly to anyone) to their personal profile are active, completely free of charge, as long as their personal profile, the official member, is up to date with the annual fee. Obviously, the other profiles have specific, very detailed implementation rules that must be followed to ensure they are used to their full potential.
If a person has multiple profiles, linked to their personal profile, are they entitled to vote with each of them? Each type of profile has its own rules and different access areas in which one has the right to vote. Obviously, when referring to shared leadership voting and closed online primary elections, each person is entitled to only one vote, in their respective voting groups, according to very detailed implementing rules.
How are users with the best concrete results rewarded? They can receive points both individually and from groups they belong to, based on their behavior and declared, demonstrated, and verified activities. Rewards can be in the form of money, goods, services, and a variety of benefits and perks. There are many informative articles that explain in detail both the rules for points and how we reward our best users.
Finally, we want to remind you that annual dues are essential to our system, to make it function perfectly, and to ensure that it remains forever free, neutral, and independent, thanks to self-financing. They're small amounts compared to the services received, and when you consider the changes and improvements in everyone's lives. They're not a huge sacrifice, but they help us enormously, and by helping us, you also help yourselves, and everyone else in the world.
We pay not to be bought. If we don't pay for our house, some lobby will, and then the house will no longer be ours, but theirs. With 2 euros a month (or less), you ensure that no one can ever tell you what to think or how to vote. And 33% of that comes back to us if we're active. It's an investment, not an expense.
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