Czech Pirate Party
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Czech Pirate Party
Česká pirátská strana |
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| Leader | Ivan Bartoš |
| Founded | 17 June 2009 |
| Headquarters | Řehořova 943/19 130 00, Praha 3 |
| Membership (2016) | 436 |
| Ideology |
Pirate politics, Direct democracy |
| Political position | Centre |
| International affiliation | Pirate Parties International |
| Chamber of Deputies |
0 / 200
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| Senate |
1 / 81
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| European Parliament |
0 / 21
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| Regional councils |
5 / 675
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| Local councils |
21 / 62,300
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| Website | |
| www |
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The Czech Pirate Party (Czech: Česká pirátská strana), short - Pirates (Czech: Piráti) is a political party in the Czech Republic, founded in 2009.
Pirate Parties were established in many European countries as a protest against the restriction of the civil rights by lobby groups. The main topic of the Pirate Party is information and its fundamental meaning in modern society. The Pirates are focused mainly on civil liberties, sharing of information, effective use of technologies and privacy protection. An integral part of their program is also transparency, e-government, direct democracy, the question of drugs (decriminalization and legalization - rational approach), education (effectivity) and health-care, where the Party opposes conservative points of view.
The party is a member of the Pirate Parties International and European Pirates. One of the Czech Pirates, Mikuláš Peksa, is nowadays a board member of PP-EU, another one, Vojtěch Pikal used to be a Co-chairman of PPI in 2013-2014.
The declared political objective of the party is the assertion of respect to the elementary human right to spread freely all accepted information and a strict protection of citizens' privacy due to the changed reality of the information society.
Based on this main thesis was formulated a program with which the party run for the elections to the Chamber of Deputies in 2010. Main points of this program were:
In 2011 Pirates begun to create the Pirate Program – the main program document of the party. It includes etc. chapters direct democracy, separation of powers, transparent state, political parties, e-government, removal of information monopolies, an emphasis on the rule of law, legalization of drugs, protection of privacy or support of artistic freedom.
The party declares a will to follow the program objectives in its own activity, so it has a transparent account and accountancy, uses free licenses and works with direct election, recall and referendum.
On 27 May 2009 has been submitted an application to the Interior ministry for the party registration; a month later, on 17 June, was the party registered under a code MV-39553-7/VS-2009.
It registered at Czech Interior Ministry on June 17, 2009. During the first two days after launching their website in April, 1,800 people signed online petition for party registration. Czech law requires 1,000 signatures on paper petition for party registration. In the student elections, the Pirate Party received 7.7% of the vote.
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