Spokesperson Permanent Assembly Treasurer Daniela Ascenzi | Legal repres. Luca Cappelletti Founded 16 September 2006 | |
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Newspaper Piratpartiet Diritti Digitali Ideology Pirate politics,
Freedom of information,
Anti-fascism,
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The Italian Pirate Party (Italian: Partito Pirata Italiano) is a political party in Italy, founded on 16 September 2006 just before the Swedish general election. It supports reform of copyright and patent law, privacy and freedom of expression.
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The party was a founding member of Pirate Parties International and of European Pirate Party.
In Italy the Pirate Party published in December 2007 under Creative Commons license its first number of the newspaper "PiratPartiet Diritti digitali".
2009-2011: old Statute
In the 2009 EP elections the Party candidated its secretary, Alessandro Bottoni, as an independent in Sinistra e Libertà in the Northern-Oriental Italy circoscription, gaining 820 preferences but not gaining the seat in the EP parliament.
In 2011 Marco Manuel Marsili founded a political party named "Partito Pirata" with Jolly Roger on an orange background as symbol. It initially included the signet of the Pirate Party International. It caused a legal dispute, followed by an order from the court of Milan on 30 March 2012, which obliged the Marsili's party not to use the Pirate Party symbols in order to protect the name and the symbol of the Italian Pirate Party. The court sentenced for a fine for every violation and condemned Manuel Marco Marsili to pay the litigation costs.
In December 2011 the Party changed its statute and is the first organization to replace its board by a permanent virtual assembly using the LiquidFeedback platform.
2013
In the 2013 regional elections in Lazio the Party candidated Arturo Di Corinto as independent in Sinistra Ecologia Libertà, but not being elected. It was interested to take part to 2013 Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol elections but it didn't take part.
In the local elections in Rome, the Party initially was intended to elect as its own mayor, Josef Yemane Tewelde named "Jojo", an Eritrean-Italian boy, technically not electable because he didn't have the Italian citizenship. Then, it joins the list Repubblica Romana and Sandro Medici as mayor, collecting 720 votes (0.07%) and not gaining a seat. Initially there was the intention to candidate someone in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional elections, but it didn't take part to elections.
At the end of the XVI Italian Republic Legislature, thanks to the success of the Pirate Party Germany, the party received some join requests from people coming from other parties: Francesco Barbato (ex-IdV) wanted to use LiquidFeedback in the Parliament, by recruiting two pirates in his staff, but he founded his own movement "I Cittadini" (The Citizens), after his request has been rejected. Even Domenico Scilipoti (ex-People and Territory, now FI) tried to join the Pirate movement but he was not accepted, so he decided to be elected again in Berlusconi's party The People of Freedom.
On 23 and 24 March 2013 there was the first Occasional Assembly (Assemblea Occasionale, AO), the congress of the Pirate Party of Italy, in Milan.
2014
On 25 January 2014 the second Occasional Assembly took part in Florence, where mutek, alias Luca Cappelletti, has been elected as legal representative of the Party.
On 9 April 2014 the Party joined Tsipras' list (The Other Europe) for the European Parliament election. In the 2014 local elections in Ferrara the Party wanted to join the coalition "Project for Ferrara" (Progetto per Ferrara) with former M5S member Valentino Tavolazzi's Democracy in Movement (Democrazia in Movimento). but the coalition won't take part to elections. The party runs for local elections in Pioltello, under the name of "Pioltello Pirata", candidating Cosimo Antonio Gervasi as mayor, but the list gained 163 preferences (1.04%), not gaining any seat in the local council.