To provide an improved relay.

An electromagnetic relay (23) comprises at least one movable contact spring (2, 3) having an allocated normally-open contact (53, 54). The movable contact spring (2, 3) is conductively connected to a first electric terminal (4, 5), and the normally-open contact (53, 54) is conductively connected to a further electric terminal (56, 57). By a movably mounted actuation element (33), the movable contact spring (2, 3) is moved according to a current flowing through the relay (23) contacting the normally-open contact (53, 54). The contact spring (2, 3) is provided with two contact faces (12, 15) spatially separated from each other. The actuation element (33) is provided with two actuation faces (41, 43) operatively connected to the two contact faces (12, 15) for moving the contact spring (2, 3).