Pirate Party Romania

The Pirate Party Romania (Romanian: Partidul Pirat România) is a political party in Romania based on the Swedish Pirate Party. The party was a member of the international Pirate Party movement[1] and is focused on copyright and patent reform, internet freedom, and government transparency.[2]

Pirate Party Romania

Partidul Pirat Romania
Founded2009
IdeologyPirate politics
Freedom of Information
Privacy
Non-Interventionist-Distributism
Direct Democracy
Transparency of government
International affiliationPirate Parties International
Website
www.partidulpirat.ro

The website of the Romanian Pirate Party was launched on 9 June 2009, and the first online meeting was held on 19 July 2009. The same year, on 6 August, members held their first live meeting, while one month later, on 7 September, the first article regarding the party was published in the Romanian online media.[3]

Party registration

In preparation for the official registration the party statute was approved by the founding members, and the first elected board was composed of Cristian Bulumac (President), Ştefan Marius Angelescu (Vice-President), Claudiu Marginean (Founding President), Ștefan Cristian Brîndușă (General Secretary) until March 2020, with a few exceptions.

On 11 February 2014 the party has submitted to the authorities the official request to be legally registered as a political party without the required signatures of 25,000 founding members.[4]

In February 2015, the Pirate Party contested the electoral law at the Constitutional Court of Romania, arguing that the law violates freedom of association.[5], the Constitutional Court heard the case of the Pirate Party leaders and admitted their contestation, overturning the section of the electoral law mandating the number of founding members.[5]


Party deregistration

Officially as of March 2020 the party voted deregistration to happen after Parliament elections.

Activities before official deregistration

Controversial activities in 2020

Pirate Party Romania joined Patriots Movement Alliance[6] in June 2020 for Parliament elections. The political movement is a big tent movement consisting of pro-european socialist, nationalist, christian and liberal parties with focus on more democratic reforms. The alliance is proposing controversial ex national liberal politician Viorel Cataramă for the portfolio of Prime-Minister of Romania with the support of multiple political parties.[7] The alliance sparked outrage in social media due to being firmly against national emergency restrictions of liberties that were taken in order to fight COVID-19. In order to prove that the COVID-19 virus is not dangerous, its voted leader Viorel Cataramă, willingly exposed himself to the infection by hugging discriminated Romani from presumably infected communities.[8]

References
  1. "PPI Members". PP-International. Archived from the original on 2010-05-29. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
  2. "Telecom Package, impossible to implement in current state" (in Romanian). Capital. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
  3. "Romanian Pirate Party will be established in six months" (in Romanian). Realitatea TV. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
  4. "Pirates attack the law at the Constitutional Court" (in Romanian). Vice.com/ro. Retrieved 2014-02-14.
  5. "Partidul Pirat din România schimbă legea partidelor politice la CCR: nu mai e nevoie de minimum 25.000 de membri fondatori" (in Romanian). Gândul. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
  6. "A new political movement - Patriots Movement Alliance" (in Romanian). Monitorul Partidelor. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  7. "Romania has a new shadow government. Premier Viorel Cataramă, Ministry of Justice - Răzvan Savaliuc" (in Romanian). Epoch Times. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  8. "Viorel Cataramă took the first COVID-19 test today. What result did the businessman receive?" (in Romanian). Mediafax. Retrieved 2020-06-25.


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