Pirate party
| Pirate Party (PP) | |
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| Party leader | Katarina Stensson |
| Secretary General | Mattias Rubenson |
| founding | January 1, 2006 |
| Headquarters | Stockholm (PO Box Address) |
| Youth organization | Ung pirate |
| Colours) | purple |
| Number of members | 2,701 (as of November 10, 2019) |
| European party | European pirate party |
| EP Group | Greens / EFA |
| Website | piratpartiet.se |
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Piratpartiet ( German : Die Piratenpartei ) is a Swedish party founded on January 1, 2006 , which advocates civil and freedom rights as well as freedom of information and data protection. Furthermore, one of the most important points on their agenda is to completely reform copyright law in Sweden, to abolish patent law and, if necessary, to unilaterally terminate existing contracts with the World Trade Organization . Its most important target groups are Internet users and especially users of P2P exchanges , as well as students. The chairman of the Pirate Party was from January 1, 2006 to January 1, 2011, its founder Rickard Falkvinge . His successor as party leader was Anna Troberg until the end of 2014 .
Meanwhile, the Swedish Pirate Parti emerged after the model in other countries Pirate Parties ; there is also an international umbrella organization called Pirate Parties International , in which the party is no longer represented.
history
On January 1, 2006, at 8:30 pm, the website went online, signifying the founding of the party. Six phases were presented, the first should be the collection of at least 2,000 signatures, i.e. 500 more than were needed. These should be deposited with Valmyndigheten , the Swedish electoral authority, before February 4th (the deadline for admission was February 28th) so that the party could take part in the Swedish election in 2006.
The second through fifth phases involved registering for election, nominating candidates for the Reichstag, and preparing an organization for election. There should be local electoral organizations in those 43 Swedish municipalities that have 50,000 and more residents.
The sixth and final phase was the election itself. The party hoped that it would get at least 225,000 votes, which would have meant support of 4 percent and thus entry into the Reichstag. The election for the Swedish Parliament in 2006 took place on September 17, 2006. The party got 34,918 votes, or 0.63 percent. At the end of December 2006, Ung Pirat, the youth organization of the Pirate Party, was founded.
In the course of the so-called “IPRED law” ( Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive , an EC directive for the protection of immaterial rights) implemented on April 1, 2009 , which is supposed to take action against file sharing and license violations, the party experienced a strong increase in membership. The party received numerous sympathizers and new members even after the controversial and, among trial observers, unexpected verdict against the BitTorrent portal The Pirate Bay on April 17, 2009. After this verdict, the number of members jumped from around 15,000 to over 40,000. Many of these memberships were not renewed after the one-year membership period had expired, as a result of which the party shrank from just under 50,000 to around 25,000 members within a few days in April 2010. The decline in membership continued thereafter, so that initially in June 2010 around 16,000 and at the end of 2011 around 8,000 people were members of the party.
Piratpartiet took part in the European elections in Sweden in 2009 ; Lars Gustafsson intervened as an advocate in the election campaign . On election day, the party received 7.1 percent of the vote and sent Christian Engström, a representative with voting rights, to the 7th European Parliament . There he was a member of the group The Greens / European Free Alliance . With the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty , Piratpartiet received one of the Swedes' additional seats in the EU Parliament, according to an additional protocol. Amelia Andersdotter also moved into parliament on December 1, 2011. The then 24-year-old was the youngest member of parliament at the time.
In the 2010 Reichstag election , Piratpartiet was able to increase its number of votes from 34,918 to 38,491, but with 0.65 percent of the votes it remained below the 4% threshold for entry into parliament. As a result of the previous decline in membership, the party had around 8,000 members in early October 2011. After a long phase of stagnation, the number of members doubled again by leaps and bounds to almost 16,000 at the end of October 2012. The reason for this was a police action against the file-sharing website Tankafetast.com in October 2012. Analogous to the surge in membership after the conviction of the founders of The Pirate Bay, these fell back to around 9,000 at the end of October 2013.
In the 2014 European elections , Piratpartiet received 2.23% of the vote and thus lost their seats in the European Parliament. In the Reichstag election in the same year , 0.43% voted for Piratpartiet.
In May 2015, the party decided by a large majority to leave the PPI and revoke its observer status.
In the 2018 Reichstag election , 0.11% voted for Pirate Party. In the 2019 European elections , Piratpartiet received 0.64% of the vote and once again failed to make it into the European Parliament.
Political implications in Sweden
Due to the social discussion about copyright, which had been stimulated by the house search at “Pirate Bay”, the economically liberal-conservative party Moderata samlingspartiet changed its positions in the election campaign for the Reichstag election in 2006 to more liberal positions. The green Miljöpartiet and the left Vänsterpartiet , which had previously criticized the legislation, now took their positions much more aggressively.
The then Swedish Justice Minister Thomas Bodström announced on June 9, 2006 his willingness to negotiate a revision of a law that came into force in 2005 that made downloading of copyrighted material illegal (previously only uploading such material was illegal), if one in return introduce a new tax on broadband internet access . The Pirate Party was negative to this proposal; in their view, such a law was not an acceptable solution and current politicians had not yet gotten to the heart of the matter.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Om oss, Partiledare piratpartiet.se, accessed on November 10, 2019
- ↑ Om oss, Partisekreterare piratpartiet.se, accessed on November 10, 2019
- ↑ MEMBER COUNT HISTORY Piratpartiet, Resource for press / media to access historical data, accessed on November 10, 2019
- ↑ Rick Falkvinge slutar som i partiledare Piratpartiet
- ↑ Anna Troberg: Jag står inte till Piratpartiets förfogande som partiledare 2015 mynewsdesk.com, December 1, 2014
- ↑ Val till riksdagen , official election statistics of the other parties 2006
- ↑ Lars Gustafsson: “Why my vote goes to the Pirate Party” ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. May 27, 2009
- ↑ Results of the 2009 European elections for Sweden ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2009 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.
- ↑ Piratpartiet till den gröna gruppen i EU parliament
- ↑ http://www.piratenpartei.de/node/960 ( Memento from November 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Val till riksdagen - Roaster Valmyndigheten, accessed on September 26, 2010
- ↑ Sweden's Pirate Party doubles membership
- ↑ https://mote.piratpartiet.se/showthread.php?t=40246
- ↑ Val till riksdagen - Röster data.val.se, September 16, 2018
- ↑ Val till Europaparlamentet - Röster data.val.se, May 31, 2019
- ↑ Larger parties bend to support file-sharing under political pressure ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2006 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. P2P Consortium, accessed June 9, 2006
- ↑ Nu vänder v och mi piratfrågan ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2017) 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. Expressen, accessed June 9, 2006
- ↑ Bodström: "Jag har inte ändrat ståndpunkt" ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2007 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. Aftonbladet, accessed June 9, 2006
- ↑ ”Det blir inget rättvist system” ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2006 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. Aftonbladet, accessed June 9, 2006
Web links
- Official website (Swedish)
- Sweden’s pirates target copyright Telepolis
- Rickard Falkvinge's speech about the pirate demonstration
- Party of the privateers Die Zeit
- Pirate Party wants to restrict copyright ( memento of March 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Pirates make politics. Ready to board. Southgerman newspaper
- Interview with Rickard Falkvinge
- Interview with Christian Engström, MEP
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