Partido Pirata España

The Partido Pirata (official abbrevation: PIRATA) is the pirate party of Spain. =Status= The party has been created on July 17 2006, officially founded on December 6 2006 finaly aproved by Ministry of Interior on January 22 2007. =Organisation=

Internal rules

 * PIRATA's Statute (English version)
 * PIRATA's Rules (Spanish version)

What

 * Article 15.a, PIRATA's Statute: "The National Board is a PIRATA body, with management and executive functions, with the responsibility of impulsing and executing the political platform, agreements and guidelines of the National Assembly, and also dealing with the administrative management of the party"

President

 * Carlos Ayala aka Aiarakoa
 * Aiarakoa's profile with photos at PIRATA's wiki (Spanish)

e-Mail address

 * [mailto:presidente.jdn@partidopirata.es ]

Secretary

 * Francisco Javier Sánchez aka Toranks

e-Mail address

 * [mailto:secretario.jdn@partidopirata.es ]

Treasurer

 * Jesús Castizo aka Alatriste

e-Mail address

 * [mailto:tesorero.jdn@partidopirata.es ]

Mailing list

 * [mailto:juntadirectiva@partidopirata.es ]

What

 * Article 19.a, PIRATA's Statute: "The Rights and Guarantees Comittee is the party's body responsible of the party members' rights and obligations. It will be responsible of settling conflicts between several party members, protecting their rights and enforcing the observance of their rights; and of applying the stated on the Title IV and on the Disciplinary Rules when timely and necessary"

President

 * Eduardo Robles aka Edulix
 * Edulix's profile at PIRATA's wiki (Spanish)

Secretary

 * José Luis González aka pululante

Mailing list

 * [mailto:garantias@partidopirata.es ]

What

 * Article 17.c.1, PIRATA's Statute: "will work to make compatible everyone's right to free distribute and access to the culture, and their contribution in that culture, with the care and protection of the authors of cultural works"

Coordinator

 * Currently there is no one in charge

Mailing list

 * [mailto:cultura@partidopirata.es ]

What

 * Article 17.c.2, PIRATA's Statute: "will work for the no existence of Software Patents; and for the establishment and consolidation of a patent system that avoids private monopolies, and that makes compatible the promotion and protection of the innovation efforts, with the explotation of previous knowledgement, to enhance the technological evolution"

Coordinator

 * Currently there is no one in charge

Mailing list

 * [mailto:patentes@partidopirata.es ]

What

 * Article 17.c.3, PIRATA's Statute: "will work to attain that the society can progress together by the hand of the Information Society, without no discrimination due to social, personal or geographical condition;; to attain that public administration use standard, non proprietary, open software, formats and documentation; and to attain the neutrality of the Internet"

Coordinator

 * Ángel Vázquez aka anvazher

e-Mail address

 * [mailto:coordinador.si@partidopirata.es ]

Mailing list

 * [mailto:sociedad_informacion@partidopirata.es ]

What

 * Article 17.c.4, PIRATA's Statute: "it will work to attain that the fight against crime and terrorism can be made compatible with the constitutional right of privacy; and, finally, will work to attain that all citizens have the same rights and freedoms inside and outside the Internet"

Coordinator

 * Jesús Castizo aka Alatriste

e-Mail address

 * [mailto:coordinador.dyl@partidopirata.es ]

Mailing list

 * [mailto:derechosylibertades@partidopirata.es ]

What

 * Article 17.c.5, PIRATA's Statute: "it will work to attain that all citizens know the PIRATA plans and projects for the times to come; to attain that all citizens know the daily work and the actions that PIRATA have done; and to attain that all citizens have a higher grade of knowledge about the technological gaps, legal gaps and menaces against their civil rights and freedoms existing nowadays, menaces that pitifully they don't use to know about, to make those menaces known to the citizens and thus allow them to freely and really implicate actively in their solution"

Coordinator

 * Jordi Vidal aka JVidal

e-Mail address

 * [mailto:secretario.jdn@partidopirata.es ]

Mailing list

 * [mailto:rrpp@partidopirata.es ]

What

 * Article 17.c.6, PIRATA's Statute: "it will work to make PIRATA relations with parties of simmilar ideology grow tighter, to harmonize ideas, and to share common projects, for instance, those to be done within the European Union scope"

Coordinator

 * Carlos Ayala aka Aiarakoa

e-Mail address

 * [mailto:presidente.jdn@partidopirata.es ]

Mailing list
= Achivements =
 * [mailto:internacional@partidopirata.es ]

Internal events

 * The I Extraordinary National Assembly (Spanish) was held in March 3-4 2007.
 * The II Extraordinary National Assembly (Spanish) was held in February 2-3 2008.
 * The III Extraordinary National Assembly (Spanish) is going to be held in April 19-20 2008.

External events

 * PIRATA answers to CMT consultation about NGN's (Spanish)
 * Note: CMT is the Spanish regulator and competition authority for the communication market
 * It explains the PIRATA proposal called the Neutral Operator (Spanish acronym: ON) for the Internet
 * Status: currently a proposal ignored by CMT, however they agreed that ON would guarantee net neutrality, net free competition on services and better prices -though they complained as they (falsely) state that it would affect competition on infrastructures and technological development-
 * Failed to concur to Spanish General Election, 2008
 * Filed a constitutional appeal through Spanish Ombudsman against LISI -promotional measures for the Information Society Act- (Spanish version)
 * Why: it attacks the freedom of speech within Internet
 * Status: pending
 * Spanish Ombudsman resolution will come before the end of March 2008
 * PIRATA answers to European Commission's Public Consultation on Creative Content Online in the Single Market - 2008 (English version)

= Plans = =Program=
 * Preparing, together with the national parties joint at the PP International, the 2009 European Election
 * For this goal to be fulfilled, collecting 20.000 signatures is required
 * Creating a round table with all the parts affected by Spanish PI law, in order to make a deal for its rewriting
 * Creating regional and local subdivisions of PIRATA

Core issues

 * Article 2, PIRATA's Statute

Culture and Author's Rights

 * "Culture is one of the goods that every citizen has right to access; then, not only we do consider that free cultural collective exchanges and enjoyment are not a crime, but also we do consider it as a fair and efficient way of promoting culture"
 * "We will work to make spanish laws concerning copyright and defense, promotion and spread of culture compatible both author's rights with society's rights, leaving behind concepts like intellectual property, which we consider a nonsense because of the inmateriality of that supposed property and which, due to that supposed simmilarity with conventional property, may give preference to economic interests rather than to the citizens' enjoyment of the culture, instead of reconciling both interests"
 * "In accordance with the former, we reject the formulas of indiscriminate compensatory remuneration, also called canon, of private copies, and we reject a rights management model where authors are forced to transfer those rights under harmful conditions to their own interests; instead, we introduce the absolute obligation of bringing authors the right to choose between self-managing their own performance rights or choosing to work with one of several performance rights organisations; and we seek to open a dialogue between each of the implicated collectives and the society, in order to find proper solutions that satisfy all sides"

Patents

 * "It is our goal the no-existence of software patents on our juridical system; for the rest of patent areas, a new patent model will be conceived, open to development and innovation, compatibilizing promotion and protection of innovating efforts with the explotation of previous knowledge, to enhance the technological evolution for the good of the society, avoiding private monopolies to arise from the patent system."
 * "Aiming to achieve the former in a compatible manner with the social and juridical integration of Spain in the European Union, PIRATA will promote, together with those political parties with simmilar ideology in the European Union, the change of the EU directives concerning copyright and defense, promotion and spread of culture."

Information Society

 * "We will work to make Internet as universal as nowadays radio or television are, and also to make every home, every business, every educational centre in Spain able to enjoy this information and culture universalization tool, without any kind of discrimination due to social, personal or geographic condition"
 * "It is our goal to make neutrality of the Internet a compulsory requirement, and also that every present and future Internet services to be reachable and offered without restrictions nor discriminations between them"
 * "We will work to make public administration use standard, non proprietary, free software, formats and documentation, not only in the search for the technological neutrality, but also to make public administration be able to guarantee safety and privacy of every single citizens' data managed by the public administration"

Civil Rights and Liberties

 * "It is our goal that the fight against crime and terrorism is in agreement with the rights and liberties recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, with strong attention to those related to presumption of innocence, privacy and freedom of speech; likewise, we will work to make citizens have the same rights and freedoms inside and outside the Internet"
 * "PIRATA will condemn the use of violence applied to make political claims outside democratic paths; PIRATA will also condemn any attempt against anyone's life and integrity, and will condemn any attempt of excluding and prosecuting people because of their ideologies, faith or beliefs, nationality, race, gender or sexual preferences"

Non core issues treatment

 * Article 25.a.2, PIRATA's Statute: "For the other subjects outside the party goals, in accordance with the disposed on the article 2 of the present Statute, by default the members of the Institutional Groups will abstain; in order to decide in which cases there will be exceptions to that abstentionism, citizens with the right to vote will also be enfranchised with the right to vote and have voice, in accordance with the norms and procedures defined by internal rules. This submission to the citizens' will implies that "PIRATA" will not be part in any coalition government, nor will give inconditional support to any of the parties represented on the chambers of the different parliaments where "PIRATA" obtains paliamentary representation"
 * There is a pending internal rule, called Institutional Groups Rule, which apart from regulate parliamentary groups -from a national context; the EU context would be regulated through PPI-, would regulate how the exceptions declared in the article 25.a.2 of PIRATA's Statute would be handled

ILCs

 * ( acronym for Iniciativas Legislativas Ciudadanas, PIRATA's citizen's initiatives )

What

 * The way for citizens to command PIRATA's representatives outside the core issues; a PIRATA approach to liquid democracy

Voters

 * Depending on who has the right to vote within a political context:
 * For Spanish issues, all Spanish citizens with the right to vote
 * For autonomous issues, all the inhabitants of that autonomous region with the right to vote
 * For regional issues, all the inhabitants of a specific island, province, etc, with the right to vote
 * For local issues, all the inhabitants of a specific town with the right to vote

If PIRATA has representatives in the political context of the proposed ILC

 * The PIRATA's MPs would present the ILC as a proposal of their own in the corresponding parliament, and would vote for it

If PIRATA has no representatives in the political context of the proposed ILC

 * PIRATA would first try the corresponding procedures defined by initiative regulating laws -like article 87.3 of Spanish Constitution-
 * If that laws don't allow PIRATA to present the ILC outside the corresponding parliament, or if the ILC is not passed by the MPs from that parliament, PIRATA would include that ILC as a proposal of its own in the platform for the next election for that political context

How

 * The how is pending to be defined; however, some general rules have been already agreed, before the approval of the corresponding Rule:

Dual individual/collective initiatives

 * An ILC can be proposed either by an individual or by a collective

Enough support

 * Everything is going to be about citizens supporting or rejecting ILCs -individually or via associations-; for a ILC to be adopted and assumed as one of its own by PIRATA, enough citizens must participate in the corresponding consultation

Enough consenssus

 * In order to avoid one of common rejections of democracy, the so called tyranny of the majority, it won't be enough for a ILC to be adopted and assumed as one of its own by PIRATA to have only one more signature for than against. Consenssus -the concrete

Compliance with PIRATA issues

 * As PIRATA follows and will follow "the Spanish Political Parties Organic Law, and the rest of legal procedures", for instance, no inconstitutional laws would be adopted by PIRATA -it would be noticed to the ILC author/s that such ILC should be rewritten as a constitutional amendment-.
 * Proposals against PIRATA core issues will be rejected -no matter (though it would be quite worrying) if 5 million signatures claim for an ethnic cleansing, it goes against article 2.a.10 of PIRATA's Statute; or if (it would be also quite worrying) 5 million signatures claim for the allowance of 72-hour non-stop torturing methods to get statements from suspects at police stations, it goes against article 2.a.9 of PIRATA's Statute; etc-.

=Weblinks=
 * Website
 * Wiki
 * Forum (with subforum for International Coordination)
 * subforum at PPInternational
 * Blog
 * Mailinglist?
 * IRC: via Webbrowser