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The Pirate Party (Arabic: حزب القراصنة, romanized: Hizb al-Qarāṣina; French: Parti pirate) is a small political party in Tunisia which was formed on 7 April 2012.[1] It is the second Pirate party in Tunisia after the Tunisian Pirate Party.[3]
Pirate Party حزب القراصنة | |
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| French name | Parti pirate |
| Founded | 7 April 2012 |
| Ideology | Pirate politics Direct democracy Open government[1] Freedom of information Secularism[2] |
| International affiliation | Pirate Parties International |
| Assembly of the Representatives of the People | 0 / 217
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| Website | |
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The party achieved notoriety during the Tunisian revolution. Slim Amamou briefly held a ministry, the world's first Pirate Party politician ever to do so, before resigning to protest against repressive measures by the interim government.[4]
Party platform
editOn the Pirate Party's official website, it lists its main objectives as:[2]
- preserving the right of every citizen of the absolute freedom of expression, communication, association and assembly
- representation of small investors to protect their companies from traces of intellectual property background
- devoted to a citizen's right to move freely around the world
- direct democracy and the inclusion of digital technology in this area support
- bringing an end to control of the Internet
- dedicated to the neutrality of the Internet
- protecting the freedom of information and independence of investigative journalism
- unconditional and free access to information
- working on the principle of absolute transparency of the government and the public sector
- open government
- promoting alternative systems of copyright and intellectual property
- anti-censorship of all kinds
- defending the rights and freedoms of the individual and the collective, especially with regard to digital freedoms
- use of free software in public institutions in order to adapt to the era of digital technology at the lowest cost and highest performance
- promoting open digital standards
- combating forms of digital monopoly and confront the downsides of proprietary software and the dominance of one party in the market
- elimination of legal obstacles that hinder the right of the media and particularly the media networks, community and non-profit Free
References
edit- ^ a b Journal officiel de la République tunisienne - Annonces légales, réglementaires et judiciaires, n°42, 7 April 2012, p. 2210 Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-13. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ (in French) Melek Jebnoun, « Et si on se retrouvait avec deux « Parti Pirate » ? », Webdo, 13 March 2012
- ^ (in Arabic) History of the Pirate Party Archived 2013-06-08 at the Wayback Machine 16 June 2012.
External links
edit- Official website (in Arabic)
