Pirate Party Switzerland
The Pirate Party Switzerland (PPS ) (French Parti Pirate Suisse ( PPS), Italian Partito Pirata Svizzero (PPS ), Romansh: Partida as Pirate's Romansch (PPS ) ), is a political party in Switzerland.
Party program
The core concern of the party according to statutes are:
- To promote free access to knowledge and culture
- To strengthen the protection of privacy and informational self- determination for the people
- To combat media bans and censorship
- To promote a transparent state
- Reduce harmful monopolies
- To strengthen human rights.
History
The party was founded on the basis of the Swedish Piratpartiet on July 12, 2009 in Zurich -Affoltern. For President Denis Simonet, was elected Vice-President Pascal Gloor.
Since July 2009, the PPS with Patrick Maechler one of the two co-presidents of the Pirate Parties International ( PPI), the international umbrella organization Pirate Parties. On March 1, 2010 Maechler occurred (since March 2011 Treasurer of the PPI ) from the trunk as co- president back and Jerry Weyer, a co-founder of the Pirate Party Luxembourg, relieved him.
In December 2009, the first general meeting of the party took place in Bern. Denis Simonet was here confirmed by the 70 participants as president.
In early 2010 took the PPS first part in elections and entered on March 7, with four candidates in the elections to the Great Council of the City of Winterthur. The PPS this was 16'754 votes (where in these elections, each voter had 60 votes ) and was one of the 60 seats in the Great win council. Also on 28 March, a participation in the Grand Council elections in the canton of Bern, in which the Pirate Party was represented by 11 candidates in four of the nine constituencies. The PPS generated a profit of 0.7%.
The pirates came for the first time in October 2011 at the Swiss parliamentary elections. Here they received a Switzerland -wide voter share of 0.48 % or 11'515 votes, representing the 12th largest share of the vote. The pirates were only in seven of the 26 cantons:
- Basel-Stadt 1.9%
- Vaud 1.0%
- Geneva 0.9%
- Zurich 0.9%
- Aargau 0.8 %
- Bern 0.7 %
- Freiburg 0.6 %
In Fribourg Charly Pache received on 11 March 2012 at the Senate elections 3.9%. This was the first appearance of a pirate at a Senate elections.
On April 1, 2012 Thomas Bruderer was elected as president and expanded the Bureau to four Vice-Presidents. The operational tasks is taking over a five-member executive board.
In September 2012, was elected by Alex Arnold in Eichberg for the first time a pirate for mayor. In April 2014 he moved to the CVP.
In February 2013 Alexis Roussel took over the office of President. By entering the Geneva parliamentarian Didier Bonny in the Pirate Party Switzerland on 26 April 2013, it was the first time represented in a cantonal parliament.
In the fall of 2013 culminated a factional dispute at the meeting in Geneva to a massive wave of withdrawals. Numerous active board members and former party exponents have expressed their displeasure with their exit. The main criticism was that the party " busy with themselves" was and was therefore irrelevant politically. As part of the exit wave, the cantonal section Basel has dissolved and the section Aargau separated from their parent party.
Cantonal sections
The first cantonal section of the party was founded in Zurich on October 21, 2010. On 3 April 2011, the Zurich Cantonal participation in the elections took place. The Pirates reached a profit of 0.56 %.
Over time, other cantonal sections were founded: Aargau, both of Basel, Bern, Freiburg, Geneva, Vaud, Thurgau, Schaffhausen, St. Gallen and Appenzell both, central Switzerland, Neuchâtel and Valais.
In October 2013, the Aargau section of the party broke away and exists from now on as an independent party.