Claim: Pirate Party member and Dutch Pirate Party board spokesperson Dirk Poot once ran for the office of Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
Evidence: Dirk Poot (born 1968) is a Dutch programmer and politician who is a former lijsttrekker and spokesperson for the board of the Pirate Party of the Netherlands. Lijsttrekker and spokesperson, Dutch Pirate Party Pirate Party of the Netherlands