Official website (https://piratpartiet.se/en)
Pirate Party
Sign in to saveAlso known as Piratpartiet, Pirate Party of Sweden, Swedish Pirate Party
Swedish political party focused on information sharing
Key facts
- Leader
- Mikael Enmalm
- Secretary general
- Kevin Stenberg
- Founder
- Rick Falkvinge
- Founded
- 1 January 2006 ( 2006-01-01 )
- Headquarters
- piratpartiet.se
- Youth wing
- Young Pirate
- Ideology
- Pirate politics , E-democracy , Freedom of information , Green liberalism
- Political position
- Syncretic
- European parliament group
- The Greens–European Free Alliance
- International affiliation
- Pirate Parties International
- European political alliance
- European Pirate Party
- Colours
- Purple
- Parliament
- 0 / 349
- European parliament
- 0 / 21
- County councils
- 0 / 1,696
- Municipal councils
- 0 / 12,700
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Piratpartiet – The political force of the digital era
The Pirate Party wants to strengthen the individual's empowerment by guaranteeing his freedom, dignity and participation. We want to see an open, free and democratic society with freedom of thought and expression and the opportunity for everyone to share and share knowledge and culture.
piratpartiet.se →The Pirate Party was founded in 2006 to bring Sweden into the digital future. Since then we have spread to over sixty countries and developed into the world’s most successful political movement since the environmental movement in the 80s. The Pirate Party is represented in the European Parliament, the national parliaments in the Czech Republic, Luxembourg and Iceland and at the local level in hundreds of different regions and municipalities in, for example, France, Finland and Germany. The party board is the party’s highest decision-making body, second only to the membership meeting. According to the party’s statutes, the board is “a long-term, decision-making and strategic body for the party and has a collective responsibility for the party’s activities and that the decisions of the members’ meeting are carried out.” The board’s working committee includes the party leader, deputy party leader, party secretary and a maximum of two additional board members. The current working committee consists of party leader Katarina Stensson, deputy party leader Henrik Passmark, party secretary Johan Karlsson and board members Mikael Enmalm.
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Encyclopedic overview
The Pirate Party (Swedish: Piratpartiet) is a political party in Sweden founded in 2006. Its sudden popularity has given rise to parties with the same name and similar goals across Europe and worldwide, forming the International Pirate Party movement.
The Pirate Party was initially formed to reform laws regarding copyright and patents. The party agenda includes support for strengthening the individual's right to privacy, both on the Internet and in everyday life, and the transparency of state administration. The Pirate Party has intentionally chosen to be bloc independent of the traditional left-right scale to pursue their political agenda with all mainstream parties. The party originally stayed neutral on other matters, but started broadening into other political areas in 2012.
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