European Pirate Party

European Pirate Party
Founded 21 March 2014 (2014-03-21)
Headquarters Brussels, Belgium
Ideology Pirate politics
Freedom of information
Direct democracy
Social liberalism
Political position Centre-left to Left-wing
International affiliation Pirate Parties International
Colours Black
Website
europeanpirates.eu
German Pirate Jens Stomber presents the PPEU at 30C3

The European Pirates (PIRATES) or European Pirate Party (PPEU) is an association of parties aspiring to be recognised as a European political party by the European Union. It was founded on 21 March 2014 at the European Parliament in Brussels in the context of a conference on "European Internet Governance and Beyond",[1] and consists of pirate parties of European countries. The parties cooperate to run a joint campaign for the 2014 European Parliament elections.[2]

The founding meeting elected Amelia Andersdotter, Swedish Member of the European Parliament for Piratpartiet, as the first chairperson.[3] The party's members elected to the European Parliament are in The Greens–European Free Alliance.[4]

European 2014 elections results

European Pirate Party got total 868,069 votes (not counting Italy) in the European Parliament election, 2014.[5]

Julia Reda – the Pirate MEP for the 2014–2019 term.
Country Election Party Seats Percentage Threshold Participation Votes Notes / Reference
 Czech Republic national results Pirátská strana 0 4.78 % 5 % 18.2 % 72,514 Threshold challenge in court rejected[lower-alpha 1][6][7][8]
 Spain national results Partido Pirata 0 0.24 % none 43.8 % 37,999
 Germany national results Piratenpartei 1 1.45 %[9] none[10] 48.1 %[11] 424,510 Elected German Pirate MEP is Julia Reda (in the image on the right).[12]
 Austria national results Piratenpartei 0 2.1 % 4 % 45.4 % 60,451 As Europa Anders, a coalition with the Communist Party and others[13]
 Croatia national results Piratska stranka 0 0.39 % ?? 25.10 % 3,623
 Finland national results Piraattipuolue / Piratpartiet 0 0.7 % none ?? 12,355
 Estonia national results Piraadipartei 0 1.8 % 5 % 36.44 % 6,018
 Slovenia national results Piratska stranka 0 2.58 % 6 % 20.96 % 10,005
 Luxembourg national results Piratepartei 0 4.23 % ?? ?? ??
 Italy national results Partito pirata In coalition with "The Other Europe" (none of its 3 elected MEPs are Pirate Party members)
 Netherlands national results Piratenpartij 0 0.85 % 4 % 37.3 % 40,064
 Greece national results Κόμμα Πειρατών Ελλάδας 0 0.90 % 3 % 59.97 % 51,673 with Ecological Greens
 Poland national results Polska Partia Piratów 0 0.019 % 5 % 23.83 % 1,042 [14][15][16]
 Sweden national results Piratpartiet 0 2.23 % 4 % 48.9 % 77,477 [17]
 Belgium national results Piratenpartij / Parti pirate ran in simultaneous national elections, but not in the European Parliament elections
 France national results Parti pirate 0 0.32 %[18] 5 % 44 %[19] 39,273
European Union Total EU-wide results European Pirate Party 1 ?? – 42.54 % 868,069

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Based on Czech Pirate Party's complaint, Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic proposed to the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic to cancel the 5 percent threshold, because vote percentage is enough for one seat (out of 21 seats). The Constitutional Court rejected the challenge on 1 June 2015.

References

  1. ↑ PPEU founding & European Internet Governance and Beyond - Programme, PPEU
  2. ↑ "'Pirates' to run joint campaign in next EU elections". EUobserver. 16 April 2012.
  3. ↑ . euroelection.co.uk.
  4. ↑ "Greens - European Free Alliance". Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "PPEU results 2014 - Google Sheets". Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "Piráti se do europarlamentu nedostali, podávají stížnost k Ústavnímu soudu". EuroZprávy.cz. 26 May 2014.
  7. ↑ "Soud vyhověl povolební stížnosti zelených a Pirátů na hranici 5 procent". zpravy.idnes.cz. 25 June 2014. Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic will propose to the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic to cancel the 5 percent threshold.
  8. ↑ "Ústavní soud - Projednávané plenární věci". Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  9. ↑ "Provisional result of the European Election 2014". The Federal Returning Officer. 2014-05-26. Retrieved 2014-05-26.
  10. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court. "Three-Percent Electoral Threshold in the Law Governing European Elections Unconstitutional Under the Current Legal and Factual Circumstances". Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  11. ↑ The Federal Returning Officer. "Provisional result of the European Election 2014". Website of the Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  12. ↑ "Final result of the European Election 2014 - Distribution of seats". The Federal Returning Officer. 2014-05-26. Retrieved 2014-05-26.
  13. ↑ "Österreich - Europawahl 2014".
  14. ↑ "Results of the 2014 European elections - Results by country - Poland, electoral district no. 6 - European Parliament".
  15. ↑ "Results of the 2014 European elections - Results by country - Poland, electoral district no. 8 - European Parliament".
  16. ↑ "Results of the 2014 European elections - Results by country - Poland, electoral district no. 11 - European Parliament".
  17. ↑ "Val till Europaparlamentet - Valnatt" (in Swedish). 2014-05-26. Retrieved 2014-05-27.
  18. ↑ Parti Pirate. "Communication du Parti Pirate sur les résultats des élections européennes - Parti Pirate". Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  19. ↑ "EUROPÉENNES 2014. La grande victoire de l'abstention - Courrier international". Courrier international. Retrieved 20 June 2015.

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