Pirate Party of Austria

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Pirate Party of Austria
Pirate Party logo
Party leader Federal Executive
Federal Managing Director Balázs Bárány, Janick-Fabian Koder, Wolfgang Suchy
founding July 31, 2006
Place of foundation Vienna
Alignment Left liberalism
pirate movement
Parliament seats
0/183
Number of members 91
Minimum age no minimum age
Average age 37 years
International connections Pirate Parties International (PPI)
MEPs
0/19
European party European Pirate Party (PPEU)
Website piratenpartei.at

The Pirate Party of Austria (short name: PIRATE , abbreviation: Piraten ) is an Austrian party founded in July 2006 by Florian Hufsky . It sees itself in accordance with the Swedish Piratpartiet as the party of the information society , is part of the international movement of Pirate Parties and member of the Pirate Parties International .

Even if the net politics forms the identity core of the party, it is now programmatically more than a pure advocacy party of the " digital natives ".

Party platform

The currently valid party program of the Pirate Party of Austria covers a wide range of topics. Program items are supplemented or changed through basic democratic votes at the Federal General Assemblies and via Liquid (a LiquidFeedback Fork ).

privacy

The Pirate Party is committed to strengthening and preserving the privacy of individuals, which the party believes is increasingly restricted. The party believes that surveillance should be limited and controlled and that privacy should only be undermined in the most extreme emergency. The demands of the Austrian Pirate Party to protect privacy are:

copyright

In the eyes of the Austrian pirates, a balance is required between the general requirements of availability and dissemination on the one hand and the demands of the creator for recognition and remuneration on the other. Copyright law adapted to modern times is supposed to accomplish this.

The Pirate Party has the following claims regarding copyright:

Patent law

The pirates see controversial issues in patent law in the points of patents on life and the increasing monopoly of products, which no longer enables competition. Patents on food, life-saving drugs and surgical methods are not acceptable to the Austrian Pirate Party. The program also makes reference to trivial patents.

In terms of patent law, the party demands:

  • Prevention of trivial patents through stricter patenting rules
  • Opening of the patent market for small and medium-sized enterprises
  • End of the obstruction of science by existing patents
  • Time limitation of patents

education

In the field of Austrian education, the pirates are demanding better use of the Internet as a teaching material. Furthermore, they demand freely available teaching materials from studies. It should not be the case that disadvantaged people are denied access to knowledge.

Summary of the requirements:

  • Promotion of open teaching materials
  • Remove access restrictions
  • Improvement of the technical infrastructure
  • Financial support for education

Further program items

Further program items of the pirates are the reform of the drug law and the unconditional basic income .

organization structure

The organizational structure of the Pirate Party differs largely from that of other parties.

Federal Executive

The Pirate Party does not have a federal chairman, but a federal board, which currently consists of five members with equal rights. The thematic external representation of the party is provided by the federal executive committee and the various thematic speakers. In the interests of grassroots democracy, the Pirate Party deliberately refrains from having a “party leader” in order to keep the structures flat and free of hierarchies.

Federal Executive

The current federal board was elected on October 20, 2018.

year choice Federal Executive Federal Executive Federal Executive Federal Executive Federal Executive
2020 February 08, 2020 Harald Bauer Cosma Tieber Julian Seidl Julia Walloch -
2018 20th October 2018 Harald Bauer (resigned) Cosma Tieber Ernst Spitaler Julian Seidl (replacement) -
2017 June 25, 2017 Harald Bauer Gerald Kainz Cosma Tieber (replacement) - -
2016 2nd April 2016 Marcus Hohenecker Roland Schneider Harald Bauer
2014 November 16, 2014 Marcus Hohenecker Florian Lammer Nora Walchshofer Erwin Ernst Steinhammer Harald Bauer
2014 January 19, 2014 Christopher Clay (resigned) Lukas Daniel Klausner Nora Walchshofer Bernhard Hayden (resigned) Marcus Hohenecker
2013 June 23, 2013 Christopher Clay Lukas Daniel Klausner André Igler Andreas Czák Walter Bonhardi
2013 3rd February 2013 Christopher Clay Werner Reiter (resigned) Rodrigo Jorquera Lukas Daniel Klausner André Igler
2012/13 October 28, 2012 Christopher Clay Marlies Wawra Rodrigo Jorquera Lukas Daniel Klausner André Igler
2012 April 1, 2012 Gerhard Kleineberg Patryk Kopaczynski Jonas Reindl Stephan Raab Rodrigo Jorquera
2011/12 Gertrude Hamader (replacement) Patryk Kopaczynski Jonas Reindl (replacement) Sylvester Heller

Federal management

The Federal Management Board (BGF) is entrusted with the administration of members and the legal transactions of the Pirate Party of Austria.

year choice Federal management
2020 February 08, 2020 Balázs Bárány, Janick-Fabian Koder, Wolfgang Suchy
2018 20th October 2018 Andreas Marek, Roland Schneider
2017 June 25, 2017 Andreas Marek, Roland Schneider
2016 2nd April 2016 Kay Schroeder, Roland Schneider (from September 2016); (Peter Postmann, Andreas Johannes Biberhofer - both resigned)
2015 November 16, 2014 Peter Grassberger, Michael Himmelbauer
2014 November 16, 2014 Bernhard Bösch, Peter Grassberger, Michael Himmelbauer, Florian Hirt and Thomas Böhm
2014 January 13, 2014 Bernhard Bösch, Peter Grassberger and Andreas Schmid
2013 June 23, 2013 Albert Gugerell (resigned, Stephan Mehofer as replacement), Florian Salmhofer, Peter Grassberger, Wolfgang Panhuber

The federal treasurer's body was abolished in BGV 2013-2.

year choice Treasurer other members
2013 3rd February 2013 Manfred Moschner (resigned) Peter Grassberger, Albert Gugerell, Florian Salmhofer, Alexander Schwetz (resigned, Wolfgang Panhuber as replacement)
2012/13 October 28, 2012 Albert Gugerell Daniel Greetings, Florian Salmhofer, Rene Dyma
2012 April 1, 2012 Andreas-Johannes Biberhofer Anton Holzer (replacement), Stefan Bürbaum
2011/12 Andreas-Johannes Biberhofer (replacement) Stefan Bürbaum (replacement)

Extended federal board

The extended federal executive committee (EBV) meets when urgent decisions are necessary. It consists of the federal executive board, the federal management and the state council.

In previous years, directly elected members were also included in the EBV, but this was rejected at the last two Federal General Assemblies and ultimately deleted:

year choice Members
2013 3rd February 2013 -
2012/13 October 28, 2012 -
2012 April 1, 2012 Christoph Huter, Gertrude Hamader, Marcus Grimas, Rene Dyma

National organizations

The national organizations of the Pirate Party of Austria are largely independent financially and in terms of content, but not legally.

National organization State Board State Councilor / State Spokesperson choice Homepage / note
Burgenland National organization dissolved - burgenland.piratenpartei.at
Carinthia National organization dissolved - kaernten.piratenpartei.at
Lower Austria National organization dissolved - Niederoesterreich.piratenpartei.at
Upper Austria National organization dissolved - oberoesterreich.piratenpartei.at
Salzburg National organization dissolved - salzburg.piratenpartei.at
Styria Peter Grassberger, Cosma Tieber, Sebastian Weiland, Lammer Florian Peter Grassberger March 2020 steiermark.piratenpartei.at
Tyrol National organization dissolved Julian Seidl - -
Vorarlberg National organization dissolved Dietmar Geiger - Disbanded in June 2016.
Vienna Niko Tanew, Roland Schneider, Balazs Barany Niko Tanew 16th Nov 2019 wien.piratenpartei.at

Finances

The Pirate Party of Austria is currently financed by a membership fee of 40 euros per year and donations. Donations from natural persons are published from 100 euros per financial year. All other donations are published quarterly.

history

After the first successes of the Swedish Pirate Party, interested parties came together on the Internet and worked out the statutes and party program. The official founding meeting took place in July 2006.

In September 2012, the party launched the online democracy tool Liquid. In this tool, paying members of the Pirate Party are entitled to vote. With its help, both the statutes and the party program are made binding.

In July 2013, the party was able to collect the 2600 support signatures required to run nationwide in the National Council election on September 29, 2013.

Due to the 2014 network blocking, the party set up a proxy on The Pirate Bay as a preventive measure .

In 2015, the Pirate Party successfully submitted a parliamentary citizens' initiative on the much-criticized State Protection Act . The campaign by the Upper Austria regional organization for the 2015 municipal council election caused a sensation. Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner showed it with the text "Johanna would like to watch you!" as a banner ad on the popular YouPorn porn site .

elections

2006 to 2009

The Pirate Party failed in the summer of 2006 when it attempted to collect the 2,600 declarations of support required to run the Austrian National Council elections on October 1, 2006 . In the election for the Austrian student union in May 2007, the Piraten - Fairness, Fnord & free scripts faction, which was brought into being on the initiative of a Salzburg party co-founder, ran at several universities. The entry into the federal representation did not succeed at that time. But with 4.16% in the Salzburger-ÖH and the later participation in the KGW faculty representation, a remarkable result could be achieved without any significant use of election campaign costs.

On July 14, 2008, the Pirate Party announced that it wanted to run for the 2008 National Council elections , but did not reach the required number of declarations of support. They did not run for the 2009 European elections .

2010 to 2012

On March 14, 2010, the Pirate Party in Bregenz took part in a municipal election for the first time and achieved 1.62% of the vote.

On April 15, 2012, the independent Pirate Party of Tyrol achieved 3.8% in the municipal council election in Innsbruck , which was the first time a pirate was appointed to a municipal representation.

In the municipal council election in Graz on November 25, 2012, the pirates achieved 2.70% of the vote and entered the municipal council with one mandate.

2013

In the state elections in Carinthia in 2013 , the Pirate Party received 0.99% of the votes (3,199 votes), making it the strongest party outside the state parliament. In the state elections in Lower Austria in 2013 , the party could only run in one constituency and achieved 0.89% there, which corresponds to 0.05% nationwide (501 votes).

In the state elections in Salzburg on May 5th, 1.30% of the votes (3,456 votes) were achieved.

In the 2013 ÖH election on 14-16 On May 25th, the Unipiraten started at 6 universities and were able to win both a university representation mandate and a federal representation mandate at the University of Vienna with 5.58% (nationwide result: 2.21%).

The Pirate Party of Austria ran nationwide in the 2013 National Council election and received 0.77% of the votes (36,265 votes).

2014

For the 2014 European elections , the pirates took part in the electoral alliance Europe different (ANDERS) , in which the KPÖ , Der Wandel and independents such as the current European Parliamentarian Martin Ehrenhauser were involved.

The Pirate Party of Austria ran for the state elections in Vorarlberg in 2014 , where it received 0.47% of the vote.

2015

In the state and municipal council elections in Vienna in 2015, the pirate party participated in the Vienna electoral alliance differently .

2016

The LP Vienna, which has meanwhile been converted into a state party, has left the electoral alliance Vienna differently .

2017

In the municipal council elections in Graz 2017 , the Graz mandate was lost again.

The Pirate Party of Austria did not stand in the early National Council election 2017 .

Web links

Commons : Pirate Party of Austria  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. [1]
  2. a b Official transparency statistics
  3. 22 Pirate Parties from all over the world officially founded the Pirate Parties International. (No longer available online.) Pirate Parties International, April 21, 2010, archived from the original on June 20, 2010 ; accessed on July 2, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pp-international.net
  4. Pirate party founder died
  5. Party program of the Pirate Party of Austria
  6. § 8. The Federal General Assembly (BGV)
  7. LiquidFeedback-Instance of the Pirate Party of Austria
  8. Vote on the name change
  9. a b c d Federal Executive Board ( memento of the original from August 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / piratenpartei.at
  10. §10. Task forces , the Federal Rules of Procedure Paragraph 3
  11. BGV2017-01 / Protocol - Piratenwiki. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .
  12. Federal Board / History - Piratenwiki. In: wiki.piratenpartei.at. Retrieved June 14, 2016 .
  13. https://wiki.piratenpartei.at/wiki/BGV2014-03/Protokoll
  14. https://wiki.piratenpartei.at/wiki/Bundesvorstand/Geschichte
  15. a b c d [2] , DerStandard October 28, 2012, Austria's pirates elected new federal board and management
  16. Federal Management ( Memento of the original dated August 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / piratenpartei.at
  17. § 10. The Federal Management Board (BGF)
  18. § 11. The Extended Federal Board (EBV) , the Federal Statute, Paragraph 1
  19. Overview of country organizations , as of May 23, 2012
  20. ^ Page of the State Council
  21. ^ Statutes - Piratenwiki. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .
  22. Decision register of the BV and EBV
  23. a b c Federal Board / Protocols / EBV2017-04-18 - Piratenwiki. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .
  24. ^ ORF-Online: Vorarlberg Pirate Party dissolves ; accessed on June 11, 2016
  25. decision to Metgliedsbeitrag
  26. Donations from the Austrian Pirate Party , with current account balance
  27. Press release on network blocking
  28. parliamentary citizens' initiative on the State Protection Act
  29. Press release on the submission of the parliamentary citizens' initiative on the State Protection Act
  30. derstandard.at Article on the advertising banner on YouPorn
  31. a b Piraten Wien ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.piratenpartei-wien.at
  32. ÖH election 2009 ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Results of previous years @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fm4.orf.at
  33. Vienna University of Technology (PDF; 7 kB), ÖH election 2007
  34. Pirate Party competes for the first time in elections , ORF, February 8, 2010.
  35. KPÖ second strongest force, ÖVP looking for partners, SPÖ and Greens lose. In: derStandard.at. November 25, 2012, accessed December 4, 2017 .
  36. - ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / info.ktn.gv.at
  37. Official election result on the website of the state of Lower Austria ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.noel.gv.at
  38. http://131.130.199.36/oeh-wahl2013/index.php?uni=0  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / 131.130.199.36  
  39. Announcement of the candidacy for the state elections in Vorarlberg 2014 ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vorarlberg.piratenpartei.at
  40. Peter Amende and Fuchsy designed: The Pirate Party will not take part in NRW2017 - Austrian Pirate Party . In: Pirate Party of Austria . July 6, 2017 ( piratenpartei.at [accessed July 7, 2017]).