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The Pirate Celebration is not going to take part within the upcoming parliamentary elections as an impartial get together, however as a partnership with De Groenen. The identify that the events will use collectively remains to be being debated, however the Pirates themselves assume their identify is just too necessary to only ignore it. Shortlist elections for the get together can even comply with shortly.
A big majority of 78 p.c of the members of the Pirate Celebration voted this weekend throughout an inserted common assembly for a joint listing, get together chairman Mark van Treuren tells Tweakers. The collaboration is just not a merger, however a joint listing with one program and one get together chief. That’s similar to how GroenLinks and the PvdA enter the elections. The Pirate Celebration will do that along with the Dutch department of The Greens.
The boards of the 2 events are nonetheless discussing the identify of the partnership. This might, for instance, change into The Greens Pirate Celebration or a variant equivalent to Pirate Celebration-Greens. “For a lot of of our members, no less than the Piraten identify was essential,” says Van Treuren.
Celebration chief
Matthijs Pontier has once more put himself ahead as a candidate for get together chief.
Additionally it is not but identified who would be the chief of the listing. Van Treuren has already registered from the Pirate Celebration. Matthijs Pontier has additionally put himself ahead, he tells Tweakers. Pontier was additionally the get together’s chief over the last parliamentary elections in 2021. He succeeded Ancilla van der Leest. There are additionally new members who’ve utilized. The get together chief elections might be held ‘someday within the coming weeks’, says Van Treuren.
Through the common assembly, a proposal to cooperate with the Fundamental Revenue Celebration was dismissed the desk. The members of the Pirate Celebration voted towards this, however allowed Fundamental Revenue Celebration members to be on the joint electoral listing.
Ideologically and financially
The cooperation is partly politically ideological, but in addition born out of necessity. In keeping with Van Treuren, the Pirate Celebration has too little cash to pay each the 11,250 euros surety to pay for the parliamentary elections in addition to marketing campaign successfully. “We’ve got simply accomplished the marketing campaign of the Provincial Council. For a small get together like ours it is going to be very costly to proceed to take part,” he says. By forming a listing along with De Groenen, the get together has extra money left over for a marketing campaign. The Pirate Celebration participated within the Provincial Council elections in North Holland. The get together didn’t win a seat there, though it’s represented with a seat within the metropolis council of Enkhuizen.
The Pirate Celebration has been working with De Groenen and the Fundamental Revenue Celebration for a while at different ranges of presidency.
The collaboration with De Groenen doesn’t come out of the blue. The events have been working intently collectively for a while. Actually, one of many solely seats that the Pirate Celebration managed to get lately was within the Amstel, Gooi and Vecht water board, and that additionally occurred with a joint listing. Matthijs Pontier is a member of that water board on behalf of the Greens, however that get together works there along with the Pirate Celebration. In different water authority elections, campaigns had been additionally carried out beneath the identify The Greens Base Pirates. That ‘Foundation’ refers back to the Fundamental Revenue Celebration, which is able to subsequently not take part within the Pirate Celebration throughout the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Digital or inexperienced get together
With this collaboration, the Pirate Celebration is taking an extra step in the direction of a broader program than simply digitisation. The get together as soon as primarily stood up for digitization, privateness and digital civil rights, however has expanded its positions lately. Within the earlier election manifesto digital points had been nonetheless incessantly mentioned, however the get together now additionally has agency positions on points equivalent to housing, sustainability and democratic group. That was additionally evident final 12 months, when Tweakers spoke extensively with Van Treuren and Pontier. That program has a robust left-wing slant. For instance, the Pirate Celebration advocates a primary revenue; Ideologically, subsequently, the collaboration with the Fundamental Revenue Celebration is just not an illogical step. Sustainability can be a dominant a part of the election programme. Whoever reads that ought to make an effort to see whether or not digitization nonetheless predominates.
Nonetheless, digitization will definitely be an necessary theme within the marketing campaign for the elections in November, says Van Treuren. He expects that a whole lot of consideration might be paid to plans to scan chats for terrorist or baby abuse materials, amongst different issues. “This investigation is necessary for the police, but in addition entails main dangers for the privateness of residents.” Fairly quickly within the dialog, nevertheless, Van Treuren brings up different themes that aren’t very related. He mentions fixing the housing scarcity and social safety. “These are going to be necessary themes for us.”
The Pirate Celebration remains to be engaged on a brand new election programme. If there may be, Tweakers will analyze it in a abstract of all digital guarantees from political events.
