Founded 26 December 2011 | Headquarters Santiago de Compostela | |
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Ideology Pirate politics, Freedom of Information, privacy, copyright and patent reform, transparency of government, education International affiliation Pirate Parties International | ||
Pirates of Galicia (Galician: Piratas de Galicia), with PIRATA.GAL acronym, is a political party in Galicia, Spain. It inherits the ideology from Pirate Party of Sweden, that seeks the reform of intellectual property and patent laws, the inclusion of direct democracy in the political system and the defense of Human Rights within and outside the Internet.
History
The party was founded in December 26, 2011 and it is officially admitted in the Register of Political Parties of the Ministry of Interior of Spain on January 26, 2012.
They ran elections for the first time on October 21, 2012 to the Galician Parliament in the provinces of Ourense and Pontevedra. The results were 336 votes in Ourense (0,18% over participation) and 1215 in Pontevedra (0,24% over participation).