Denis Simonet

Denis Simonet (born 21 May 1985 in Biel) was from 2009 to 2012 the first President of the Pirate Party Switzerland (PPS ) and since then press spokesman. In April 2012 he was elected to the board of the Pirate Parties International.

Functions with the pirates

Simonet was at the inaugural meeting of the Pirate Party Switzerland in Zurich elected the first president and confirmed on 5 December 2009 in Bern, and February 19, 2011 in Winterthur for a further period. At the meeting held on 4 and 5 March 2012 in Visperterminen he did not stand for re -election. He has since been spokesman for the Pirate Party Switzerland. On 15 April 2012, he was elected to the board of the Pirate Parties International, where he also takes care of press relations.

Policy

On the list, " PIRATES " in the constituency Biel- Seeland the Bernese cantonal parliament elections Simonet was the top candidate; He received 726 votes, which was enough for no seat. In these elections, the Pirate Party Switzerland reached 0.7 per cent of all votes. In the national elections in 2011, he ran to Rank 3 and reached 4904 votes. Even in these elections, the Pirate Party Switzerland joined the Canton of Berne with 0.7 %, respectively. Simonet has a lobbyist badge for the Houses of Parliament, which he has received from SVP National Lukas Reimann.

From 13 to December 24, 2010 blogged Simonet for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung about " digital policy " and for the IT magazine " power week " he was interviewed as an expert on monitoring. In his own blog he writes also regularly on digital policy, individual contributions were soon adopted by the Student Portal students.ch as well as from the day indicator. He was also on the committee of the transparency initiative to disclose the politician - income and member of the Committee against the reintroduction of the book price. The referendum came about and the Swiss people the reintroduction of book prices declined in the national vote.

Its proximity to the music itself Simonet is committed to a liberal copyright law, which allows the free exchange of culture. The rapper Gimma has therefore attacked him in an open letter, whereupon Simonet with a blog post titled " The Internet is not a Nazi regime " has responded. In addition to Simonet has expressed in an interview with Tages-Anzeiger on copyright debate.

Biography

Simonet lives in Ipsach, studied computer science at ETH Zurich and leads his studies at the Berner Fachhochschule continued. It is located in the C cadres of civil defense organization and works part-time as a software developer. He is also a founding member of the Swiss Privacy Foundation and member of the freethinkers section Wallis. One of his hobbies is the piano. He published his two compositions on last.fm and composed the jingle of independent podcasts parrot.fm. His composition " Move On " was re-arranged by MG Rizzello and produced; the song can be downloaded for free on Bandcamp. Simonet is an active member of the Association of Swiss journalists.

Other

In the inaugural meeting of the Pirate Parties International, he represented as a delegate, the Pirate Party Switzerland.