Saarland Pirate Party

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Saarland Pirate Party
Logo Pirate Party Saarland.png
Chairman Klaus Schummer
Deputy Jörg Arweiler
Treasurer Thorsten Alexander Rieger
Establishment date June 24, 2009
Place of foundation Saarbrücken
Landtag mandates
0/51
Number of members 184
(as of April 4, 2020)
Website pirates.saarland

The Saarland Pirate Party is the state association of the Pirate Party in Saarland . From 2012 to 2017 she was represented by a parliamentary group in the Saarland state parliament.

Program

The Saarland Pirate Party largely supports all points of the Federal Party ( Pirate Party ). At the local level, they are committed to the following:

UBI

The Saarland Pirate Party is committed to an unconditional basic income (UBI). According to the party, the UBI enables a life without existential fears. It is also intended to reduce bureaucracy.

education

The Saarland Pirate Party calls for a return to the G9. The reason given is that a good education needs time for independent leisure time outside of school.

They also call for free crèches and kindergartens, as otherwise disadvantages for poor families could arise.

The Saarland Pirate Party demands that every Bachelor graduate be entitled to a Master’s degree.

In their opinion, access to the course content should be free. They want the use of online platforms so that they can work on teaching content better from home.

digitalization

The pirates in Saarland are for free internet in all public institutions.

You want to equip the whole of Saarland with future-proof broadband .

In addition, they want to significantly simplify and expand the options for dealing with authorities online from their home PC.

They also call for a way for citizens to get involved in politics online .

Local transport

The Saarland Pirate Party is for a public transport without a ticket .

You want cross-border bus and rail transport to the Greater Region.

In their opinion, autonomous vehicles are the future and the existing vehicle fleet should be supplemented with autonomous vehicles

Local politics

The party won several seats in the local elections on May 26, 2019.

Merchingen

Elected officials (2 of 9 seats)

  • Michael Grauer
  • Dirk Huffer

In the local elections on May 26, 2019, the PIRATES got 38.6% of the vote. Of the 3 seats won, only 2 could be filled due to a lack of candidates.

Weiskirchen

Elected representatives (1 of 27 seats)

  • Wolfgang Barth (elected from the "Green Alternative List")

Rappweiler-Zwalbach

Elected officials (1 of 9 seats)

  • Hans Hirtz (chosen from the "Green Alternative List")

Pirates in the Saarland state parliament

In the state elections in Saarland in 2012 , the party reached 7.4 percent and entered the Saarland state parliament with four members . After Michael Neyses moved to the Greens parliamentary group on January 26, 2015, the parliamentary group consisted of three members until leaving the state parliament.

In the state elections in Saarland in 2017 , the party achieved 0.7 percent and was behind the family party (0.8 percent) and ahead of the NPD (0.7 percent).

Former group leader

Group chairman was Michael Hilberer .

Former MPs

Web links

Commons : Piratenpartei Saarland  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Membership statistics
  2. ↑ Topics. In: Saarland Pirate Party. Retrieved October 6, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ kommunalpiraten.de - mandates in local councils. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Pirate Neyses changes to the Greens parliamentary group ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Saarbrücker Zeitung from January 26, 2015
  5. ↑ Pirate faction Saar - The MPs ( Memento from February 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Final official final result of the state elections 2017 ( memento of March 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Saarland Statistical Office.