Pirate Party (Gylias)
Pirate Party | |
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| Founded | 2000 |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Colours | Purple |
| Website | |
| http://www.pirates.gls/ | |
The Pirate Party (French reformed: Parti pirate), abbreviated Pirates, is a Gylian political party, part of the Non-inscrits bloc.
Established in 2000, it is a partly satirical pirate party that champions direct democracy and Gylias' cultural economic practices and intellectual rights law.
History
The Pirate Party was founded in 2000. It was directly inspired by Delkora's Pirate Party, as well as other contemporary left-wing Non-inscrits.
It built up a high profile in the media, and successfully entered the Chamber of Deputies in 2000. It also built up strength in municipal and regional elections.
It provided some outside support to the Mathilde Vieira government.
Ideology
The Pirates are a pirate party with a mild satirical bent. They support direct democracy and e-democracy, use of the internet and computers to facilitate decentralised planning and participatory budgeting, open government, civil liberties, and the right to privacy.
It takes a strong stance in support of remix culture and Gylias' existing cultural economic practices, including staunch support for the Law on Intellectual Rights of 1960, Law on Cultural Protection of 1992, and Law on Privacy Protection of 1993. It is described by some commentators as a lifestylist formation, representing a current of "cyberanarchism" similar to Love, Nature, Democracy's "sexarchism" and the LSD Party's acid communism.
Symbols
The Pirate Party uses the colur purple as its official colour, and a stylised sail as its symbol.
Its abbreviation is "Pirates" because the "PP" acronym was already in use by the Prosperity Party when it was founded.
Popular support
The Pirates enjoy a strong core of support among young voters and those engaged in cultural pursuits — a constituency largely overlapping with that of the LSDP, LND, and People's Party for a Flourishing Nightlife. As a result, these parties enjoy close relations and benefit from preference exchanges in elections.
Its popularity among pop culture is reflected in creators that have lent famous pirate characters to its election campaigns, including Rubis Cœur, Risky Boots, Bảo Đại, and Marika Katō.
