The Pirate Party of Austria (german: Piratenpartei Österreichs, PIRAT) is a
political party in
Austria and part of the global
Pirate Party
Pirate Party is a label adopted by Political party, political parties around the world. Pirate parties support Civil and political rights, civil rights, direct democracy (including e-democracy) or alternatively Participatory democracy, partici ...
movement which advocates what has come to be known as
Pirate politics
Pirate Party is a label adopted by political parties around the world. Pirate parties support civil rights, direct democracy (including e-democracy) or alternatively participation in government, reform of copyright and patent law, free shar ...
. It is mostly known for opposing the
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The party was founded by
Florian Hufsky and Jürgen 'Juxi' Leitner during the run-up to the
2006 election
The following elections occurred in the year 2006.
* Elections in 2006
* Electoral calendar 2006
* 2006 Acehnese regional election
* 2006 American Samoan legislative election
* 2006 Bahraini parliamentary election
* 2006 Costa Rican presidential ...
in Austria, but failed to gather the necessary signatures to contest the election. On 14 March 2010, the PPÖ ran for municipal elections for its first time in the city of
Bregenz and received 1.62% of the vote, however failed to win any seats.
Christopher Clay, Marlies Wawra, Rodrigo Jorquera, Lukas Daniel Klausner and André Igler have been elected on 28 October 2012 to board members in the General Assembly of the Pirate Party Austria. Albert Gugerell has been elected as treasurer.
In January Alexander Ofer, former member of the Tyrolean State Pirate Party, was expelled together with all state party members.
After Ofers entering of the
city council the Pirate Party announced to come up to the ''Pirate Party Tyrol'' (Ofers new party he had founded before getting expelled. They successfully ran for a post in the city of Innsbruck).
But Ofer said "Wir wollen mit der Piratenpartei Österreichs nichts zu tun haben, das sind Pfuscher." ''("We don't want to have anything to do with the Pirate Party of Austria , they are botchers"'').
In 2012 the
social-liberal daily newspaper ''
Der Standard'' stated that the Pirates could be a competitor against
The Greens and the
Freedom Party, and could become the new
Liberal Forum, with
the Pirate Party Austria is heading for National Assembly in 2013 and EU Elections in 2014.
In municipal elections in Graz on 25 November 2012, the Pirates gained 2.68% of the vote and one seat.
On 4 March 2014 Salzburg Piratenpartei started a
whistleblowing initiative; at the base of the initiative is the use of the
GlobaLeaks
GlobaLeaks is an open-source, free software intended to enable secure and anonymous whistleblowing initiatives.
History
The project started on 15 December 2010 and the first software prototype was announced on 6 September 2011.
Relevant figure ...
software that enables anonymous whistleblowing.
External links
Official website
References
{{Austrian political parties
Austria
Pirate Party of Austria