Pirate Party (Finland) instance of Pirate Party
The Pirate Party (Finnish: Piraattipuolue, Swedish: Piratpartiet) is a registered political party and Pirate Party in Finland. The group currently has around 173 paying members. The chairman of the party is Pekka Mustonen. The party is a member of Pirate Parties International and European Pirate Party.History
In January 2008, Matti Hiltunen registered the domain piraattipuolue.fi and set up a BBS on the site. In May 2008, about 50 founding members of the party held the founding assembly in Tampere. In September 2008 the party started to collect the 5,000 supporter cards needed to officially register the party. The party's goal was to take part in the 2009 European Parliamentary election. The supporter cards were collected by 1 June 2009, too late for the elections. The party was officially registered on 13 August 2009.In October 2009, the Pirate Party took part in the special municipal election of Loviisa with 1 candidate, but did not win a seat. The party's first major election was the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election with 127 candidates in 11 constituencies, gathering 0.5% of votes and becoming the largest party to have no seats in parliament. In the 2014 European Parliament election it gathered 12,378 votes (0.7%). In the 2015 Finnish parliamentary election the party got 25,105 or 0,8% of total votes, and was left without seats in the parliament. Consequently, Ministry of Justice decided to remove the Pirate Party among 5 others from its list of political parties due to lack of confidence in parliamentary voting for two elections. The party collected the needed 5,000 supporter cards again and was registered on 6 June 2016.In the 2017 municipal elections, the Pirate Party gained two seats on municipal councils, one in Helsinki and one in Jyväskylä. Helsinki's council member Petrus Pennanen received 1,364 votes; Jyväskylä's council member Arto Lampila received 191 votes.
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