Czech Pirate Party

File:Czech Pirate Party press conference 4 June 2019.jpg, Ivan Bartoš and Dana Balcarová at a press conference in 2019]]

The Czech Pirate Party was founded as a student-driven grassroots movement campaigning for political transparency, civil rights and direct democracy. The party was initially inspired by the Swedish Pirate Party,[https://www.psp.cz/sqw/hp.sqw?k=6600 Poslanecký klub České pirátské strany vznikl v 8. období 22. října 2017.] psp.cz. which like most other Pirate Parties was a single-issue party focusing on Internet freedom; however, the Czech Pirate Party has developed a broad political platform.

On 27 May 2009 an application was submitted to the Ministry of the Interior for registration of the party. On 17 June, the party was registered under the code MV-39553-7/VS-2009.{{cite news | url = http://www.novinky.cz/internet-a-pc/171841-ceska-piratska-strana-ma-povoleni-ministerstva-a-chce-do-parlamentu.html | title = Česká pirátská strana má povolení ministerstva a chce do parlamentu | language = cs | work = Novinky.cz | date = 22 June 2009 | first = Miloslav | last = Fišer | access-date = 22 June 2009 | archive-date = 14 June 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190614184454/https://www.novinky.cz/internet-a-pc/171841-ceska-piratska-strana-ma-povoleni-ministerstva-a-chce-do-parlamentu.html | url-status = dead }} Within the first two days of the launch of their website in April, 1,800 people had signed an online petition to register the party.{{cite news | url = http://zpravy.idnes.cz/domaci.asp?c=A090421_160045_domaci_anv | title = Čeští internetoví piráti zakládají politickou stranu | language = cs | work = iDnes.cz | date = 21 April 2009 | first = Andrea | last = Votrubová}} Czech law requires a paper petition with 1,000 signatures for registration. In the student elections, the Pirate Party received 7.7% of the vote.{{cite news | url = http://www.wienerzeitung.at/default.aspx?tabID=3861&alias=wzo&cob=494591 | title = Tschechien: Jugend vereint gegen Linksparteien | work = Wiener Zeitung | date = 21 May 2010 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110606122248/http://www.wienerzeitung.at/default.aspx?tabID=3861&alias=wzo&cob=494591 | archive-date = 6 June 2011 }}

On 28 June 2009 the party held a constitutive forum in Průhonice, near Prague, where the board was elected and main elements of the program were declared. Kamil Horký was elected as chairman. At the end of October 2009 in Albrechtice nad Orlicí, the General Assembly (GA) met for the first time, to complete statutes and elect a new board, commission and committee. Ivan Bartoš became party chairman.

The party participated in the general election in May 2010,{{cite news | url = http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/384074 | title = Czech Interior Ministry registers Czech Pirate Party | work = ČeskéNoviny.cz | date = 22 June 2009 | agency = Czech News Agency}} and received 0.8% of the vote.{{cite web |url=http://www.election.cz/pls/ps2010/ps2?xjazyk=EN |title=Election to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic held on 28 – 29 May 2010 |publisher=Czech Statistical Office |date=2010-05-30 |access-date=2010-05-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151201200346/http://www.election.cz/pls/ps2010/ps2?xjazyk=EN |archive-date=1 December 2015 |url-status=dead }}

File:Czech Pirate Party press conference 12 February 2019.jpg, the party formed a governing coalition and Zdeněk Hřib (front center) was elected Mayor of Prague.]]

In December 2010, the party launched its own national whistle-blowing site similar to WikiLeaks, called PirateLeaks.{{cite news | url = http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6376006,00.html | title = Czech Pirate Party launches new whistleblowing site | work = Deutsche Welle | date = 2010-12-29 | access-date = 2011-03-14 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110629001134/http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0%2C%2C6376006%2C00.html | archive-date = 2011-06-29 }} The site was intended as a primary source for journalists, dedicated to evidence of corruption in the Czech government and public administration documents which should be publicly available according to law 106/1999 Sb. (Free Access to Information Act) but which the authorities refused to disclose without a formal request defined by the law.

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Standing in a local senate election on 18–19 March 2011 in Kladno, they obtained 0.75% of the vote.{{Cite web |url=http://wiki.pp-international.net/Main_Page |title=PPI wiki |access-date=2011-05-31 |archive-date=2018-01-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108084255/http://wiki.pp-international.net/Main_Page |url-status=dead }} In the 2012 Czech Senate election, the Czech Pirate Party nominated three candidates; one of them was a co-nomination with two other parties. This candidate, the whistleblower Libor Michálek, was elected as Senator in the second round of voting, with the Czech Pirate Party becoming a parliamentary party for the first time.

In local elections in 2014 the party entered many local assemblies, including a clear majority in Mariánské Lázně,{{citation|url=http://piratetimes.net/pirates-to-enter-several-local-czech-parliaments/|title=Pirates to Enter Several Local Czech Parliaments|publisher=PirateTimes|date=2014-10-11|access-date=2014-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014142313/http://piratetimes.net/pirates-to-enter-several-local-czech-parliaments/|archive-date=2014-10-14|url-status=dead}} which resulted in Vojtěch Franta being elected as the party's first mayor.{{citation|url=http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct24/regiony/292152-prvni-starosta-z-piratu-chceme-marianske-lazne-omladit/|title=První starosta z Pirátů: Chceme Mariánské Lázně omladit|trans-title=The first Pirate mayor: We want to rejuvenate Marianske Lazne|publisher=Ceskatelevize|date=2014-11-12}}{{citation|title=Mayor of Mariánské Lázně|url=http://www.muml.cz/mestsky-urad/starosta/|date=2014-11-13|publisher=City of Mariánské Lázně|access-date=2014-11-13|archive-date=2014-11-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129052904/http://www.muml.cz/mestsky-urad/starosta/|url-status=dead}} This city became the party's main stronghold outside Prague and its suburbs.{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338775252 |title=Assured Newcomers on a Squally Sea? The Czech Pirate Party before and after the 2017 Elections |date= |accessdate=2022-04-14}}

In the 2016 Senate election, the Pirates won two additional seats in the Senate with Ladislav Kos and Renata Chmelová, who were nominated by multi-party coalitions with the Pirates' support.[https://volby.idnes.cz/senat-2016.aspx Výsledky voleb v České republice Senátní volby 2016 (konečné výsledky)]. Mladá fronta DNES with Bartoš as a leader.

Following the 2017 legislative election, the party became the third largest party in the Chamber of Deputies with 22 out of 200 seats and sat in opposition to the ruling cabinet. Economist and auditor Lukáš Wagenknecht was elected Senator in the 2018 election, when Michálek's term ended.{{Cite news|url=https://plus.rozhlas.cz/ivan-stern-wagenknecht-vyhral-senatni-volby-7640959|title=Ivan Štern: Wagenknecht vyhrál senátní volby|date=2018-10-13|publisher=Czech Radio|access-date=2018-10-16|language=cs}}

The Pirates ranked second in the 2018 Prague municipal election with 13 out of 65 seats and formed a governing coalition with the third and fourth-ranked parties that holds 39 out of 65 seats in the Prague City Assembly.[https://domaci.ihned.cz/c1-66312370-nova-koalice-planuje-personalni-zmeny-v-mestskych-firmach-chce-tak-skoncovat-se-systemem-politickych-trafik Nová pražská koalice plánuje personální změny v městských firmách. Skoncujeme se systémem politických trafik, slibují piráti] (in Czech). Hospodářské noviny. 26. 10. 2018. The leading Pirate candidate with 75,082 votes,{{cite web|url=https://www.volby.cz/pls/kv2018/kv21111?xjazyk=CZ&xid=1&xv=23&xdz=4&xnumnuts=1100&xobec=554782&xstrana=0&xstat=0&xodkaz=1|title=Jmenné seznamy|website=volby.cz}} Zdeněk Hřib, was elected as Mayor of Prague.[https://praha.idnes.cz/primator-praha-hrib-pirati-rada-mesta-dwa-/praha-zpravy.aspx?c=A181025_201749_praha-zpravy_zuf Primátorem Prahy bude Pirát Hřib. Další koaliční lídři jsou mimo radu] (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. 25 October 2018.

With leading candidate Marcel Kolaja in the 2019 European Parliament election,Zdeňka Trachtová. [https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/pirati-marcel-kolaja-evropske-volby-europarlament_1901191750_kro Volební lídr Pirátů: V europarlamentu chci bojovat proti korporátním tlakům a cenzuře internetu] (in Czech). Czech Radio. 19 January 2019. the party ran on a common platform with the European Pirate Party.ČTK, EKB. [https://www.info.cz/volby/volby-do-evropskeho-parlamentu/evropske-piratske-strany-spojuji-sily-v-lucemburku-podepsaly-program-pro-eurovolby-40267.html Evropské pirátské strany spojují síly. V Lucemburku podepsaly program pro eurovolby] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419051350/https://www.info.cz/volby/volby-do-evropskeho-parlamentu/evropske-piratske-strany-spojuji-sily-v-lucemburku-podepsaly-program-pro-eurovolby-40267.html |date=2019-04-19 }} (in Czech). info.cz. 9 February 2019. Kolaja was elected along with Markéta Gregorová and Mikuláš Peksa as Members of the European Parliament.[https://volby.cz/pls/ep2019/ep2111?xjazyk=CZ&xv=1&xt=2&xstrana=27 Volby do Evropského parlamentu konané na území České republiky ve dnech 24.05. – 25.05.2019] (in Czech). volby.cz In May 2019, the party negotiated to join the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group along with German Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer.Kateřina Šafaříková. [https://www.respekt.cz/politika/pirati-miri-k-evropskym-zelenym PIRÁTI MÍŘÍ K EVROPSKÝM ZELENÝM] (in Czech). Respekt. 29. 5. 2019 In June, all four members of the European Pirate Party joined the parliamentary grouping. On 3 July, Kolaja was elected one of fourteen Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament.[https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20190627IPR55411/the-new-european-parliament-vice-presidents The new European Parliament Vice-Presidents]. europarl.europa.eu. Press release.

In January 2020, Bartoš was re-elected as party leader.[https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/predsedou-piratu-opet-bartos-mistopredsedkyni-richterova/1839955 Předsedou Pirátů opět Bartoš, místopředsedkyní Richterová] (in Czech). České Noviny.cz. 11 January 2020. With 14.67% of the vote in the October 2020 regional elections, the party gained 99 out of 675 seats in regional councils. In the 2020 Senate election, the party nominated two successful candidates, David Smoljak and Adéla Šípová, who became the youngest ever member of the Senate at the age of 40, breaking the previous record of Pirate Senator Wagenknecht.Radek Bartoníček. [https://zpravy.aktualne.cz/domaci/zatim-nevydavat-pirati-maji-senatorku-matka-peti-deti-porazi/r~89a1f64e0a2a11ebb115ac1f6b220ee8/ Tvrdě jsem pracovala, říká nejmladší senátorka, která porazila matadora Bendla]. (in Czech) Aktuálně.cz. 10.10.2020.

File:Česká pirátská strana poslanci 3 November 2021.jpg, Olga Richterová, Ivan Bartoš, Klára Kocmanová]]

During late 2020 and early 2021, the Pirates formed the Pirates and Mayors electoral alliance for the 2021 legislative election with liberal centre-right party Mayors and Independents (STAN).[https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/domaci/3240956-lidrem-koalice-piratu-a-stan-ma-byt-ivan-bartos Lídrem koalice Pirátů a STAN má být Ivan Bartoš]. ČT24. 14.12.2020. The alliance won 37 seats, of which four are Pirate MPs, and joined the governing coalition with Spolu.[https://www.e15.cz/domaci/pirati-pujdou-do-vlady-krok-schvalilo-pres-osmdesat-procent-clenu-strany-1385375 Piráti půjdou do vlády. Krok schválilo přes osmdesát procent členů strany]. e15.cz. 15.11.2021. The party nominated three ministers for the incoming Cabinet of Petr Fiala: Ivan Bartoš as Minister of Regional Development and Digitalisation, Jan Lipavský as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Michal Šalomoun as Minister of Legislation.

In September 2024, the Pirates left the governing coalition after Fiala dismissed Bartoš as regional development minister due to problems over a new digital system for issuing building permits. However, Lipavský left the party to stay as foreign minister.{{Cite web |date=8 October 2024 |title=Czech government undergoes a reshuffle after a party leaves but retains a majority in Parliament |url=https://apnews.com/article/czech-government-reshuffle-fiala-pirates-896ceaba8a6085498f7f4b40e252e54c |work=Associated Press}}

In November 2024, Zdeněk Hřib was elected as party leader.{{Cite web |last=Nejedlý|first=Matěj|date=9 November 2024 |title=Piráti po 15 letech vystřídali Bartoše, povede je Zdeněk Hřib |url=https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/domaci-politika-pirati-vybrali-nastupce-ivana-bartose-povede-je-zdenek-hrib-264156 |website=Seznam Zprávy|language=cs|access-date=9 November 2024}}

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The Czech Pirate Party is a centrist to centre-left progressive "liberal" party (in contrast to "conservative") within the context of politics of the Czech Republic. The party's leadership expressed that it considers the left–right political spectrum to be obsolete.[https://zpravy.idnes.cz/ivan-bartos-rozhovor-piratska-strana-mfd-f1e-/domaci.aspx?c=A181027_435592_domaci_zaz Koncept levice a pravice je podle mě už přežitý, říká předseda Pirátů] (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES 30 November 2018. The party itself describes its stance as economically centrist and socially liberal, in the context of Czech politics.[https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/domaci/2710052-pirati-se-schazeji-v-tabore-sest-se-jich-se-utka-o-vedeni-kandidatky-do-evropskeho Piráti chtějí vést liberální politický střed a v květnu získat 20 procent, zaznělo na fóru v Táboře] (in Czech). ČT24. 19 January 2019.

The party's program focuses on safeguarding of civil liberties from state or corporate power through government transparency, accountability and anti-corruption measures, introducing elements of participatory democracy by enabling law proposals by the public through petitions and simplification of state bureaucracy through e-government.[https://www.lidovky.cz/pirati-se-vymezili-proti-vyroku-andreje-babise-novym-sloganem-vsichni-nekradou-gdb-/zpravy-domov.aspx?c=A170907_121342_ln_domov_ELE Piráti představili program. Do voleb jdou se sloganem ‚Všichni nekradou‘]. Lidové noviny. Published on September 7, 2017.

The party proposes a lobby register and a lobbying law reform,Karolína Sadílková. [https://www.pirati.cz/tiskove-zpravy/zakon-o-lobbingu-je-potreba.html Piráti: Zákon o lobbingu a registr lobbistů zpřehlední legislativní proces a zabrání plýtvání] (Czech). 20.02.2018. measures to address tax avoidance of multinational corporations and limit capital outflow, a bank tax, the strengthening of the Czech National Bank's authority, prevention of financial speculation leading to financial crises and financial crime; and it is against any public bank bailouts.[https://www.pirati.cz/program/temata/banky/ Banky, které se postarají samy o sebe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141041/https://www.pirati.cz/program/temata/banky/ |date=2018-06-12 }}. pirati.cz.

The party has an environmental policy platform entitled "Ecology without ideology",Jan Trnka. [http://a2larm.cz/2017/10/ekologie-a-ideologie/ Ekologie a ideologie Jedno z předvolebních hesel České pirátské strany zní „Ekologie bez ideologie“. Co se tím strana snaží říct?] (in Czech). a2larm.cz. 02.10.17. which focuses on the elimination of fossil fuel subsidies, scientific research and development-based support for alternative energy (i.e. renewables and nuclear), sustainable materials management from product design to waste management, sustainable transport with a preference for public transport, and sustainable city planning and urban development.[https://www.pirati.cz/program/dlouhodoby/zivotni-prostredi/ Životní prostředí] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190204122256/https://www.pirati.cz/program/dlouhodoby/zivotni-prostredi/ |date=2019-02-04 }} (in Czech). piráti.cz.

The party's agricultural policy proposes support for small-scale farmers and community farms instead of subsidizing intensive farming and large agribusinesses. The program promotes biodiversity of crops, and forest management and land management that address the environmental impact of agriculture rather than subsidizing monoculture crops that cause land degradation and have a variety of unsustainable environmental impacts. The Pirates also propose to simplify the producer–consumer chain by supporting infrastructure for the sale of local and seasonal produce.[https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy/volby-2017-programove-postoje-stran/2237332-pirati-k-tematu-zemedelstvi-a-zivotni-prostredi Piráti k tématu Zemědělství a životní prostředí] (in Czech). Česká televize. 14. 9. 2017.

The party supports LGBT rights in the Czech Republic.Petra Dvořáková. [https://www.piratskelisty.cz/clanek-1551-pirati-miluji-piratske-vlajky-tradicne-na-prague-pride Piráti milují. Pirátské vlajky tradičně na Prague Pride]. piratskelisty.cz. Published on 17 August 2016.

In January 2019 it was reported that the party has proposed the eventual introduction of a universal basic income.{{cite web |url= https://www.politico.eu/article/czech-pirate-party-anti-establishment-ivan-bartos-ahoy/ |title= Czech Pirates, ahoy! |last= Mortkowitz |first= Siegfried |date= 25 January 2019 |website= Politico EU |access-date= 12 February 2023 |quote= One Pirate proposal suggests the government transfer the tax burden from workers to certain sectors, such as coal mining and telecommunications, and eventually introduce a universal basic income.}}

The party's four main campaign policies in the run-up to the 2017 elections were:

• Control of power and government spending through transparency and accountability
• Simplification of state bureaucracy by introducing e-government
• Supporting small businesses and e-commerce, addressing capital outflow of foreign-owned companies and tax avoidance via offshore financial centres
• Safeguarding civil liberties, freedom of information, freedom of speech, democracy and increasing public participation in decision making (participatory democracy)

Furthermore, the Pirates announced policies on transport and logistics, finance, IT, culture, international relations, local development, defence, labour and social issues, industry and trade, justice, interior policy, education and science, healthcare, agriculture and the environment.

File:1718798538385 20240618 GREGOROVA Marketa CZ 013.jpg Markéta Gregorová since the 2019 European Parliament election]]

The Czech Pirate Party is generally pro-European and pro-Eurozone, while advocating major reforms in both institutions to address the perceived democratic deficit in the European Union. The Pirates propose that the Czech Republic should participate in the mainstream of the European integration and should participate in EU decision making, but should adopt the Euro only if specific conditions are fulfilled.{{cite web|url=https://www.pirati.cz/program/temata/euro/|title=Stanovisko k Euru|website=Czech Pirate Party|access-date=2018-05-17|archive-date=2021-07-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716175122/https://www.pirati.cz/program/temata/euro/|url-status=dead}} The party also supports Czech membership of NATO, but it is critical of aggression by NATO members and argues that any engagement of NATO forces outside of the territories of its member states should take place only if supported by a United Nations resolution.[https://www.pirati.cz/tiskove-zpravy/nato-a-evropska-obrana.html Stanovisko Pirátů ke kolektivní obraně v rámci EU a NATO] (Czech). The party leadership has criticized military invasions by NATO and questioned the legality of the United States-initiated wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq and the 2011 military intervention in Libya by NATO forces.[https://zpravy.idnes.cz/pirati-maji-problem-s-nato-dc0-/domaci.aspx?c=A170330_111436_domaci_kop Piráti, jak je nejspíš neznáte. Strana, v níž mají problémy s NATO]. 30.03.2017. Mladá fronta DNES.

Among the party's European priorities is technological competitiveness of the EU on the world market, limiting corporate lobbying in the EU and addressing Europe-wide tax avoidance by multinational corporations that offshore profits via tax havens.[https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/domaci/2807954-rozhovory-s-lidry-kandidatek-do-evropskych-voleb-marcel-kolaja-pirati Rozhovory s lídry kandidátek do evropských voleb: Marcel Kolaja (Piráti)] (in Czech). 7. 5. 2019. ČT24. Furthermore, the party addresses digital rights and prevention of increasing Internet censorship; promotion of environmental protection[https://www.denik.cz/evropska-unie/pirat-ktery-v-cesku-zadne-spojence-nevidi-kolaja-je-lidrem-do-voleb-20190211.html Pirát, který v Česku žádné spojence nevidí. Kolaja je lídrem do voleb] (in Czech). Deník. 11.2.2019. and consumer protection.[https://www.e15.cz/volby/volby-do-evropskeho-parlamentu-2019/piraty-povede-do-eurovoleb-softwarovy-specialista-marcel-kolaja-1355527 Piráty povede do eurovoleb softwarový specialista Marcel Kolaja]. (in Czech). e15.cz. 19 January 2019. The Pirates oppose the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).ČTK, iDNES.cz. [https://zpravy.idnes.cz/nemecko-protesty-ttip-ceta-dd5-/zahranicni.aspx?c=A160917_150414_zahranicni_mlb Desítky tisíc Němců vyšly do ulic. Odmítají smlouvy EU s Kanadou a USA]. Mladá fronta DNES. Published on 17 September 2017.

The program for the European Parliament elections in 2019 was published under the auspices of the European Pirate Party. Its core lies in addressing the democratic deficit in the European Union, decentralization and enacting of the subsidiarity principle: decision making on local and national affairs at the local levels of governance that are close to the citizens of the Member States.[https://wiki.ppeu.net/doku.php?id=programme%3Aceep2019 Pirate Common European Elections Programme 2019]. wiki.ppeu.net. In addition to copyright reform or the digital agenda, it covers topics such as education, environment and agriculture, foreign policy, defense, transport and taxation and space programs.ČTK, EKB - 9 February 2019. [https://www.info.cz/volby/volby-do-evropskeho-parlamentu/evropske-piratske-strany-spojuji-sily-v-lucemburku-podepsaly-program-pro-eurovolby-40267.html Evropské pirátské strany spojují síly. V Lucemburku podepsaly program pro eurovolby] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419051350/https://www.info.cz/volby/volby-do-evropskeho-parlamentu/evropske-piratske-strany-spojuji-sily-v-lucemburku-podepsaly-program-pro-eurovolby-40267.html |date=2019-04-19 }} (in Czech). info.cz. The party published its own European priorities in five points:[https://www.pirati.cz/program/europarlament2019.html Volební program pro volby do Evropského parlamentu 2019] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525022848/https://www.pirati.cz/program/europarlament2019.html |date=2019-05-25 }} (in Czech). pirati.cz.

• Protecting European liberty against threats from the outside by strengthening EU defense capability, independence and external border; and against internal threats such as authoritarianism, extremism and censorship
• Making European decision-making transparent, decentralized, enabling citizen participation, subsidiarity, reducing EU bureaucracy
• Reform taxation of corporations, transparent management of the European budget, support for small and medium-sized businesses
• Addressing the causes of climate change and its impacts on the environment, addressing waste management and dependency on fossil fuels, sustainable development and support for rural areas and small farmers
• Consumer protection, support for social equality and protection of workers' rights

The party is a member of Pirate Parties International and European Pirates (PPEU). Mikuláš Peksa is a board member of PPEU,{{cite web | url = http://europeanpirateparty.eu/index.php/board/ | title=European Pirate Party - Board|access-date=8 June 2016}} and Vojtěch Pikal was a co-chairman of PPI in 2013 and 2014. In April 2012, the party organised a conference of the Pirate Parties International (PPI) in Prague. More than 200 representatives of Pirate parties from 27 countries attended, including the founder of the Pirate movement, Rick Falkvinge; writer Cory Doctorow; and Swedish MEP Amelia Andersdotter.

The party expressed support for the pan-European political movement Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25).{{cite web|title=Připojení se k manifestu DiEM25 - Pirati.CZ|url=https://wiki.pirati.cz/spisovna/2016/05/pripojeni_se_k_manifestu_diem25|website=Pirati.CZ|access-date=12 November 2017|language=cs}}{{cite web|title=Piráti koketují s radikální levicí, přihlásili se k hnutí řeckého marxisty Varufakise|url=https://www.lidovky.cz/pirati-koketuji-s-radikalni-levici-dt4-/zpravy-domov.aspx?c=A171026_173702_ln_domov_jho|website=Lidovky.cz|access-date=12 November 2017|date=27 October 2017}}{{cite web|title=Jaká má být Evropa? Přečtěte si manifest Janise Varufakise, k němuž se přihlásili Piráti|url=https://www.lidovky.cz/jak-si-varufakis-predstavuje-demokratizaci-evropy-f86-/zpravy-domov.aspx?c=A171026_182315_ln_domov_jho|website=Lidovky.cz|access-date=12 November 2017|date=27 October 2017}}

File:Praha, Smíchov, volební štáb, tisková konference II.jpg (center) was elected Senator in the 2018 election, when the term of whistleblower Libor Michálek (front right) ended.]]

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File:Ivan Bartoš 8 May 2021.jpg|Ivan Bartoš

File:Olga Richterová 30 March 2018.jpg|Olga Richterová, party fourth vice chairwoman

File:Jakub Michálek 4 November 2020.jpg|Jakub Michálek, former member of the Prague City Assembly

File:Klára Kocmanová 15 November 2021.jpg|{{ill|Klára Kocmanová|cs}}

File:Zdeněk Hřib (Nov 2024) (cropped).jpg|Zdeněk Hřib, party chairman

File:Adam Zábranský 13 April 2021.jpg|{{ill|Adam Zábranský|cs}}

File:Vít Šimral 02.jpg|Vít Šimral

File:Markéta Gregorová.jpg|Markéta Gregorová

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• Civil libertarianism

• Maškarinec, P. (2020). Crossing the left-right party divide? Understanding the electoral success of the Czech Pirate Party in the 2017 parliamentary elections. Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263395720920768
• Naxera, Vladimír (2021). 'Let us blow them down!': Corruption as the subject of (non-)populist communication of the Czech Pirate Party. Politics. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02633957211010984
• Šárovec, Daniel (2019) "Assured Newcomers on a Squally Sea? The Czech Pirate Party before and after the 2017 Elections" https://otik.uk.zcu.cz/handle/11025/36375?locale=en

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[https://www.pirati.cz/assets/pdf/program_cerne_na_bilem.pdf Pirate Party official program] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023010623/https://www.pirati.cz/assets/pdf/program_cerne_na_bilem.pdf |date=2017-10-23 }}. {{in lang|cs}}

{{cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/czechia.html|title=Czechia|first=Wolfram|last=Nordsieck|website=Parties and Elections in Europe|date=2017}}

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41708844 Czech election: Billionaire Babis wins by large margin]. BBC News. Published on October 22, 2017.

Pavel Maškarinec. [https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/sjps.2017.17.issue-1/sjps-2017-0001/sjps-2017-0001.pdf The Czech Pirate Party in the 2010 and 2013 Parliamentary Elections and the 2014 European Parliament Elections: Spatial Analysis of Voter Support]. Slovak Journal of Political Sciences, Volume 17, 2017, No. 1. Walter de Gruyter.

Philip Heijmans. [https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2018-09-24/in-czech-elections-pirate-party-eyes-prague-mayors-seat Pirates Seek to Plant a Flag in Prague]. U.S. News & World Report. September 24, 2018.

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