The WikiLeaks Party
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| Party leader | Julian Assange |
| founding | March 23, 2013 |
| resolution | 23rd July 2015 |
| Alignment | Libertarianism |
| Number of members | 2000 |
| Website | wikileaksparty.org.au |
The WikiLeaks Party is a political party in Australia . It was founded on March 23, 2013 around a group around Julian Assange , the founder of WikiLeaks . She ran for the 2013 general election in Australia and received 0.62% of the vote. The party advocates the protection of freedom and transparency; she did not run for the general election in Australia in 2016 .
history
Assange announced in March 2012 that he would run for the next election for the Australian Senate . In late 2012 he announced the founding of the WikiLeaks party. When it was founded, Assange was only represented with a video message. With 1,200 members at that time, the party submitted the registration documents as a political party on March 23, 2013 and was officially registered on July 2, 2013. On July 23, 2015, the registration as a party was canceled by the Australian electoral authority.
Board
The WikiLeaks Party board is made up of eleven people. The chairman is Assange.
Elections and party withdrawals
In the Senate election in September 2013, the party ran with seven candidates in the provinces of Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. Polls predicted the WikiLeaks Party candidates to be 25% to 28%.
At the end of August, however, several prominent party members resigned and accused Assange of single-handedly disregarding party decisions in an undemocratic manner. In lengthy negotiations, the party council agreed to cooperate with the Greens on the election recommendations for preferential votes in three states, which are important in the Australian preferential voting system, and to make at least no recommendations for candidates from the Creationists , the Arms Party or Christian right-wing parties in the rest . Assange then changed these election recommendations and instead preferred right-wing and nationalist parties, including the Australia First Party . Party members who have resigned include Leslie Cannold (previous number two in the party), Sam Castro and Kaz Cochrane (founders of the Citizens' Alliance for WikiLeaks ) and mathematician Daniel Mathews (founding member of WikiLeaks).
Contrary to the polls, the WikiLeaks Party achieved only 0.62 percent nationwide. However, Assange announced that he would run again in later elections.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ WikiLeaks hopes to turn international interest into extra backing . theguardian.com
- ^ How Julian Assange's Senate Bid Will Change Australian Politics . In: The Monthly . November 28, 2010. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
- ↑ Assange not without a chance . Telepolis
- ^ Julian Assange to run for Senate . ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
- ↑ Julian Assange wants to start a WikiLeaks party and run for office .
- ↑ Australia - Assange founds Wikileaks party . Süddeutsche.de
- ↑ Cookies must be enabled. | The Australian.
- ^ The Wikileaks Party . Australian Electoral Commission. July 23, 2015. Accessed July 24, 2015.
- ↑ Wikileaks founder Julian Assange now a step closer to a Senate run .
- ↑ WikiLeaks expands bid for senate seats . ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
- ↑ Good poll results for Wikileaks founders: Assange wants to become an Australian senator . n-tv.de
- ↑ Detlef Borchers: Australian Wikileaks party in severe crisis . heise.de, August 21, 2013
- ↑ Deborah Snow, Daniel Hurst: WikiLeaks' campaign for Senate implodes . The Sydney Morning Herald, August 22, 2013
- ^ Resignations from The WikiLeaks Party: Statements . ( Memento of the original from 23 August 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. waca.net.au, August 21, 2013 (Website of the Citizens' Alliance for Wikileaks)
- ↑ Defeat for Wikileaks Party in Australian parliamentary elections. In: Heise online. September 9, 2013, accessed September 11, 2013 .
