Pirate Party of Austria
Pirate Party of Austria | |
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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:
- No data retention , no flight passenger monitoring , no police trojan and no automated number plate comparison
- Amendment of the SPG , location data request only with judicial control
- Stronger enforcement of the Data Protection Act 2000 , video surveillance only with permission
- Upgrade of the data protection commission, appointment of a data protection officer based on the German model
- Financial compensation in the event of data loss as well as fines for the responsible company
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:
- Legalization of non-commercial private copying
- Preventing censorship through copyright lawsuits
- Shortening the duration of protection
- Preservation of artistic freedom
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ a b Official transparency statistics
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Pirate party founder died
- ↑ Party program of the Pirate Party of Austria
- ↑ § 8. The Federal General Assembly (BGV)
- ↑ LiquidFeedback-Instance of the Pirate Party of Austria
- ↑ Vote on the name change
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ §10. Task forces , the Federal Rules of Procedure Paragraph 3
- ↑ BGV2017-01 / Protocol - Piratenwiki. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Federal Board / History - Piratenwiki. In: wiki.piratenpartei.at. Retrieved June 14, 2016 .
- ↑ https://wiki.piratenpartei.at/wiki/BGV2014-03/Protokoll
- ↑ https://wiki.piratenpartei.at/wiki/Bundesvorstand/Geschichte
- ↑ a b c d [2] , DerStandard October 28, 2012, Austria's pirates elected new federal board and management
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ § 10. The Federal Management Board (BGF)
- ↑ § 11. The Extended Federal Board (EBV) , the Federal Statute, Paragraph 1
- ↑ Overview of country organizations , as of May 23, 2012
- ^ Page of the State Council
- ^ Statutes - Piratenwiki. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Decision register of the BV and EBV
- ↑ a b c Federal Board / Protocols / EBV2017-04-18 - Piratenwiki. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .
- ^ ORF-Online: Vorarlberg Pirate Party dissolves ; accessed on June 11, 2016
- ↑ decision to Metgliedsbeitrag
- ↑ Donations from the Austrian Pirate Party , with current account balance
- ↑ Press release on network blocking
- ↑ parliamentary citizens' initiative on the State Protection Act
- ↑ Press release on the submission of the parliamentary citizens' initiative on the State Protection Act
- ↑ derstandard.at Article on the advertising banner on YouPorn
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Vienna University of Technology (PDF; 7 kB), ÖH election 2007
- ↑ Pirate Party competes for the first time in elections , ORF, February 8, 2010.
- ↑ KPÖ second strongest force, ÖVP looking for partners, SPÖ and Greens lose. In: derStandard.at. November 25, 2012, accessed December 4, 2017 .
- ↑ - ( 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ http://131.130.199.36/oeh-wahl2013/index.php?uni=0 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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]).