Pirate Party (Belgium)
{{Infobox political party
| country = Belgium
| name = Pirate Party
| native_name = Piratenpartij/Parti Pirate
| logo = Logo partipiratenpartij 135px.png
| logo_size = 155px
| leader =
| foundation = 28 June 2009
| ideology = Pirate politics
Civil libertarianism
| international = Pirate Parties International
| headquarters = Brussels
| website = http://pirateparty.be/
| seats1_title = European Parliament
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| seats2_title = Brussels Parliament
| seats2 = {{Composition bar|0|89|{{party color|Pirate Party (Belgium)}}}}
| seats3_title = Flemish Parliament
| seats3 = {{Composition bar|0|124|{{party color|Pirate Party (Belgium)}}}}
| seats4_title = Walloon Parliament
| seats4 = {{Composition bar|0|75|{{party color|Pirate Party (Belgium)}}}}
| colorcode = {{party color|Pirate Party (Belgium)}}
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The Pirate Party of Belgium ({{langx|nl|Piratenpartij}}, {{langx|fr|Parti Pirate}}) is a political party in Belgium. Based on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party, it supports reform of copyright law, the abolition of patents, and respect for privacy.{{cite web |url=http://pirateparty.be/elections/doku.php?id=nl:programma |title=Programma |publisher=Pirate Party Belgium |date=2010-05-04 |language=nl |access-date=2010-05-28 |archive-date=2010-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100730112526/http://www.pirateparty.be/elections/doku.php?id=nl:programma |url-status=dead }} It was a founding member of Pirate Parties International.{{cite web |url=http://www.pp-international.net/node/471 |title=22 Pirate Parties from all over the world officially founded the Pirate Parties International |publisher=Pirate Parties International |date=2010-04-21 |access-date=2010-05-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620080907/http://www.pp-international.net/node/471 |archive-date=2010-06-20 }}
Electoral participation
= 2010 federal elections =
The party participated for the first time in the federal elections of 13 June 2010,{{cite web |url=http://www.ibz.rrn.fgov.be/fileadmin/user_upload/Elections2011/nl/kiezer/kandidaten_lijsten/kiesk_brussel-halle-vilvoorde.pdf |title=List of candidates election district Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde |language=nl |publisher=Federal Government of Belgium |date=2010-05-18 |access-date=2010-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719163638/http://www.ibz.rrn.fgov.be/fileadmin/user_upload/Elections2011/nl/kiezer/kandidaten_lijsten/kiesk_brussel-halle-vilvoorde.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-19 |url-status=dead }} but only for the electoral district of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde, where they received 0.26% of the votes. Their only candidate (apart from successors) was Jurgen Rateau.
=2012 local elections=
The party presented lists at municipal and provincial elections in Belgium in 2012, in 14 municipalities and 26 provincial districts. The provincial results were generally around 1% in Flanders and 3% in Walloon.
The best result they obtained was 3.42% in the provincial district of Tournai by Paul Bossu and at the communal level, 5.16% at Louvain-la-Neuve, the list led by Lionel Dricot. The pirates at Ottigines list-Louvain-la-Neuve were only 14 votes short of a seat.
=2014 federal and regional elections=
In the federal election of 25 May 2014, the Pirate Party participated in the Flemish constituencies of Antwerp (0.98%), East Flanders (0.82%) and Limburg (0.71%) as well as the Walloon constituencies of Hainaut (0.80%) and Liège (0.63%).
In the simultaneous regional elections, the Pirate Party had candidates for the four major constituencies (i.e. not Limburg or Brussels) for the Flemish Parliament, and received 25,986 votes (0.62%) in total. For the Walloon Parliament, the party only competed in the constituency of Nivelles, where it received 3,612 votes (1.54% in the constituency and 0.18% for the entire election). Their result was again strongest in Louvain-la-Neuve with 2.49% in that municipality. The Pirate Party also competed in the French language group for the Brussels Parliament, where they received 3,026 votes (0.74%).
=2018 local elections=
In the 2018 Belgian local elections, the Pirate Party presented a shared list with Volt Belgium under the name "Paars" ("Purple") in several municipalities, gaining 1,476 in Antwerp and less than one thousand in Brussels.{{Cite news|url=https://www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20180817_03669636/nieuwe-progressieve-partij-volt-komt-op-voor-gemeenteraadsverkiezingen|title=Nieuwe progressieve partij Volt komt op voor gemeenteraadsverkiezingen|last=Kandolo|first=StampMedia - Lieven Miguel|work=Gazet van Antwerpen|access-date=1 February 2019|language=nl-BE}}
References
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External links
- [http://pirateparty.be/ Official website]
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