Pirate Party Switzerland

Pirate Party Switzerland
Establishment date:	July 12, 2009
Place of foundation:	Zurich - Affoltern
Presidium:	Sylvia Oldenburg-Marbacher Jorgo Ananiadis
Vice Presidium:	Daniel Peter Carlos Polo
Members:	1130 (as of May 12, 2013)
Proportion of women:	6.1% (as of April 1, 2012)
Average age:	32 (as of July 12, 2011)
Share of voters:	0.27% (as of: Swiss parliamentary elections 2019 )
National Council:	0 seats
Council of States:	0 seats
Cantonal parliaments:	0 seats
Cantonal Governments:	0 seats
Home address:	Pirate Party Switzerland 3000 Bern
International connections:	Pirate Parties International
European party:	European pirate party
Website:	piratenpartei.ch

The Pirate Party Switzerland ( PPS ) ( French Parti Pirate Suisse (PPS) , Italian Partito Pirata Svizzero (PPS) , Romansh Partida da Pirats Svizra (PPS) ) is a political party in Switzerland .

The Pirate Party positions itself as «humanistic, liberal, progressive». She is a member of the Digital Society , the Pirate Parties International and the European Pirate Party .

Party platform

According to the statutes, the main concerns of the party are:

• to promote free access to knowledge and culture
• to strengthen the protection of privacy and the informational self-determination of the population
• Fight media bans and censorship
• to promote a transparent state
• limit harmful monopolies
• strengthen human rights
• to stand up for secularism and humanistic values.

history

The party was founded on July 12, 2009 in Zurich-Affoltern based on the Swedish Pirate Party . President was Denis Simonet , elected Vice-President Pascal Gloor.

Since July 2009, PPS has provided Patrick Mächler, one of the two co-presidents of Pirate Parties International (PPI), the international umbrella organization of pirate parties . On March 1, 2010, Mächler (since March 2011 treasurer of the PPI) resigned from office as Co-President and Jerry Weyer , one of the co-founders of the Luxembourg Pirate Party, replaced him.

In December 2009 the party's first general assembly took place in Bern . Denis Simonet was confirmed as president by the 70 participants.

At the beginning of 2010, the PPS took part in elections for the first time and on March 7th stood with four candidates in the elections for the City Council of Winterthur . The PPS received 16'754 votes (whereby each voter had 60 votes in these elections) and was able to win one of the 60 seats in the large municipal council. On March 28th, they also took part in the Grand Council elections in the canton of Bern , in which the Pirate Party was represented with 11 candidates in a total of four of the nine constituencies. The PPS achieved a result of 0.7%.

The pirates ran for the first time in October 2011 in the Swiss parliamentary elections . They received a Swiss-wide share of the vote of 0.48% or 11'515 votes, which corresponds to the twelfth largest share of the vote. The pirates only competed in the following seven of the 26 cantons:

• Basel-City 1.92%
• Vaud 0.99%
• Geneva 0.90%
• Zurich 0.86%
• Aargau 0.77%
• Bern 0.73%
• Freiburg 0.61%

In the canton of Friborg, Charly Pache received 3.9% in the elections to the Council of States on March 11, 2012. It was the first time a pirate took part in an election for the Council of States.

On April 1, 2012, Thomas Bruderer was elected President and the Presidium was expanded to four Vice Presidents. The operational tasks are now taken over by a five-person management.

In September 2012, Alex Arnold in Eichberg was the first pirate to be elected mayor. In April 2014 he moved to the CVP .

In February 2013 Alexis Roussel took over the office of President. When the Geneva parliamentarian Didier Bonny joined the Swiss Pirate Party on April 26, 2013, it was represented in a cantonal parliament for the first time.

In autumn 2013, several exponents left the party for various reasons. Points of contention were political positions, how to deal with differences of opinion, the party structures and the power structure. In the course of this wave of exit, the Basel cantonal section dissolved and the Aargau section separated from its parent party. The section of both Basels has existed again since February 2015.

In February 2014, the Pirate Party of Winterthur was able to defend its seat in the city parliament and more than double its share of the vote to 2.4%. Marc Wäckerlin received 3,830 votes as a candidate for the city council.

In March 2014, four new Vice-Presidents were elected: Jorgo Ananiadis , Guillaume Saouli , Marc Wäckerlin and Kilian Brogli .

In March 2015, Guillaume Saouli and Stefan Thöni replaced the outgoing Alexis Roussel as co-presidents. The Pirate Party did not get a seat in the Cantonal Council elections in Zurich. In September 2015, the Pirate Party was able to employ a female employee (part-time) for the first time. For the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2015 , the Pirate Party ran with a total of 54 candidates in the cantons of Bern, St.Gallen, Vaud, Valais, Zug, Zurich and the sister party in the canton of Aargau. To this end, an election program was adopted in May 2015 under the motto “Humanistic, Liberal, Progressive”.

From October 2015 to January 2016, the Pirate Party participated in collecting signatures for a referendum against the new Intelligence Service Act. However, on September 26, 2016, the Swiss electorate passed the law with 63.6%

The Pirate Party took part in the referendum against the new surveillance law BÜPF from March to July 2016 . However, this fails because of too many invalid and uncertified signatures

In the 2018 Grand Council elections in the canton of Bern , 6,120 party votes resulted in a result of 0.84 percent.

Together with the Digital Society and the “Alliance for a Fair Copyright”, the Swiss Pirate Party organized a demonstration with over a thousand participants in Zurich as part of the Europe-wide demonstrations of the Savetheinternet movement against the directive on copyright in the digital single market .

On March 31, 2019, the resigning Co-Presidents Guillaume Saouli and Kilian Brogli were elected as the new Co-President Sylvia Oldenburg-Marbacher and the new Co-President Fabian Rousseau at the Pirate Meeting of the Pirate Party Switzerland in Zurich. Daniel Peter was elected as Vice-President alongside the previous Vice-Presidents Jorgo Ananiadis and Carlos Polo.

For the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2019 , the Pirate Party will run with 54 candidates in the cantons of Aargau, Basel, Bern, Vaud and Zurich.

At the third Annual General Meeting in 2019, Jorgo Ananiadis took up the position of Co-President, which was now vacant again.

Cantonal sections

The party's first cantonal section was founded on October 21, 2010 in Zurich. On April 3, 2011, she participated in the Zurich Cantonal Council elections. The pirates achieved a result of 0.56%.

In the course of time, further cantonal sections were founded: Aargau, both Basel, Bern, Freiburg, Geneva, Waadt, Thurgau-Schaffhausen, St. Gallen and both Appenzell, Central Switzerland, Neuchâtel and Valais.

In October 2013 the Aargau section split off from the party, and in December 2018 the Central Switzerland section. In March 2019, the Aargau section rejoined the Swiss Pirate Party.

Election results

2011

Canton	Number of votes	Overall votes	Share of votes in percent
Aargau	21,274	2,746,803	0.77
Basel city	5'314	277,015	1.92
Bern	67'509	9,189,523	0.73
Friborg	3,630	590,975	0.61
Geneva	9,806	2,952,181	0.90
Vaud	29,125	1,089,639	0.99
Zurich	119'400	13,860,834	0.86

2015

Canton	Number of votes	Overall votes	Share of votes in percent
Aargau	19,517	3,121,755	0.63
Bern	82,660	8,776,598	0.94
St. Gallen	6,924	1,732,456	0.40
Vaud	38,710	3,167,325	1.22
Zurich	96,064	14,895,305	0.64
train	1,128	116,689	0.94

Web links

Commons : Pirate Party Switzerland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Swiss Pirate Party

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pirate Party of Switzerland: Statistics. Archived from the original on December 17, 2012 ; accessed on March 16, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Information on the number of members of the Swiss Pirate Party. Archived from the original on June 28, 2013 ; accessed on March 16, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Wiki Piratenpartei.ch: Age structure statistics. Archived from the original on April 29, 2010 ; accessed on March 16, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Articles of Association Art. 2 Purpose ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2010 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. 
5. ↑ Swiss Pirate Party founded. nzz.ch, accessed on July 14, 2009 . 
6. ↑ Swiss pirate party founded. heise online, July 13, 2009, accessed on April 12, 2010 . 
7. ^ Announcement of Patrick Mächler's resignation on the PPI side
8. ↑ Denis Simonet presides over the Pirate Party. nzz.ch, accessed on January 18, 2010 . 
9. ↑ Portal Winterthur - 453 candidates on twelve lists ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2016 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. ^ Election result of the renewal election of the city council of Winterthur
11. ↑ Elections 2010 ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2010 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. 
12. ↑ Pirate Party Switzerland: The election result confirms us! ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2010 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. 
13. ↑ The Swiss Pirate Party is becoming more professional. (No longer available online.) Swiss Pirate Party, March 4, 2012, archived from the original on March 9, 2012 ; Retrieved March 30, 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.  
14. ↑ NZZ Coup in Eichberg
15. ↑ A defector. In: Tages-Anzeiger .ch from April 3, 2014
16. ↑ Pirate Party Switzerland Pirate Party Switzerland with a new President ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2013 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. 
17. ^ Tribune de Genève Le député indépendant Didier Bonny rejoint le Parti pirate
18. ↑ View from October 11, 2013 Resignations, quarrels, rabble-rousings: Is the pirate party over?
19. ^ Municipal council elections Winterthur 2014 . Retrieved October 16, 2015.
20. ↑ City council elections Winterthur 2014 . Retrieved October 16, 2015.
21. ↑ 2014-03-01 Protocol PV .
22. ^ Election program for the 2015 National Council elections . Retrieved October 16, 2015.
23. ↑ Referendum against the BÜPF has started .
24. ↑ The Eight Empty Promises of the Intelligence Service Act .
25. ^ Federal Law on the Intelligence Service (Intelligence Service Act, NDG) .
26. ↑ Referendum against the BÜPF has started .
27. ↑ Despite 55,000 signatures collected, only a miracle from Bern can help .
28. ↑ Elections and Votes. Retrieved September 10, 2019 . 
29. ↑ Computerworld.ch: Demo against ancillary copyright and EU copyright law. Retrieved September 10, 2019 . 
30. ↑ Elections. September 6, 2019, accessed September 9, 2019 . 
31. ↑ Pirate Assembly 2019: Set sail for the final spurt in the election campaign. September 16, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 . 
32. ↑ Cantonal elections 2011 . Retrieved May 6, 2011.
33. ↑ Pirate Party will also be present in Eastern Switzerland in the future . Retrieved November 14, 2011.
34. ↑ Central Switzerland Pirate Party founded . Retrieved January 25, 2012.
35. ↑ The Aargauer Pirates separate from their Swiss parent party , October 11, 2013, Aargauer Zeitung
36. ↑ Ex-pirates aim high with a new party. July 25, 2019, accessed September 10, 2019 . 
37. ↑ General renewal elections for the National Council and Council of States 2011. Accessed on September 9, 2019 . 
38. ↑ 2011 elections. Accessed September 9, 2019 . 
39. ^ Canton of Bern: Election platform. Retrieved September 9, 2019 . 
40. ↑ Results: Federal elections of October 23, 2011: National Council. Retrieved September 9, 2019 (French). 
41. ↑ Résultats de l'élection du 23 October 2011. Accessed on September 9, 2019 . 
42. ^ Canton de Vaud: Result officiel votation / élection. Retrieved September 9, 2019 . 
43. ↑ National Council elections 2011: extrapolation, results, voter participation. Retrieved September 9, 2019 . 
44. ↑ Results of the 2015 National Council elections. Accessed on September 9, 2019 . 
45. ^ Canton of Bern: Election platform. Retrieved September 9, 2019 . 
46. ↑ Renewal election of the National Council. Retrieved September 9, 2019 . 
47. ↑ Votations et élections - Vaud. Retrieved September 9, 2019 . 
48. ↑ National Council election 2015. Accessed on September 9, 2019 . 
49. ↑ National Council elections 2015. Accessed on September 9, 2019 .