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Czech Pirates Win 18 Seats in Parliament!

KG October 6, 2025 October 22, 2025

The Czech Pirate Party won 18 seats in the October 2025 election for Parliament! 🥳 Unfortunately, the main winner of the election was the populist billionaire and former prime minister Andrej Babiš and his ANO movement. He has expressed skepticism toward support for Ukraine and has drawn closer to authoritarian leaders such as Viktor Orbán in Hungary. The Czech Pirates run on a diametrically opposed platform. The overall result of 8.7% of the vote makes them the 3rd largest party in the country. While the success is not quite as monumental as when they won 22 seats in 2017. It does represent a vast improvement from just 4 seats that …

Review of June 18 2024 Board Meeting, Pirate Beer on June 29, Next Board Meeting on July 9

KG June 20, 2024 June 21, 2024

We update you all with a short summary of our last board meeting, but before doing so we remind everyone that there will be a Pirate beer coming up on June 29, 2024 at 20:00 Sydney, Australia time, which is 10:00 UTC time. The event will take place in our Jitsi room. Also, the next board meeting is scheduled for July 9, 2024, at 20:00 UTC, also on Jitsi. https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board During the last meeting we got the disappointing results from the recent PPEU elections. The Pirate Party Germany (PPDE) lost its seat, while the Pirate Party Czech Republic (PPCZ) lost two seats. However, the Pirate Party is still represented in …

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Elections in Israel with HaPiratim!

KG March 11, 2021 May 11, 2021

HaPiratim! The Pirate Party of Israel is running again in elections! For the 4th time in just over 2 years there are early elections in Israel, making this the 6th time since 2012 that the Pirates will participate in national elections. Dr. Ohad Shem Tov (picture above, right) is leading the list this time, followed by the retired Israeli TV producer and longtime Pirate Dan Biron. The leader of the party in the last elections, Noam Kuzar (picture above, left), is still participating in the list and graciously presented our list to the Knesset (see video below, with English subtitles). Among other policies, the Pirates are campaigning to …

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The PPCZ STAN Coalition

KG January 12, 2021 January 12, 2021

The Czech Pirates approved the coalition agreement with the STAN movement. They are going to the 2021 parliamentary elections together! Prague, January 12 2021 – The Czech Pirates just approved a coalition agreement with the “Mayors and Independents” movement (STAN) in a final vote. They confirmed that they are going together to the upcoming parliamentary elections. Almost 79% of party members supported the proposal. The referendum saw a high turnout of almost 77% of Czech Pirates taking part. “I am very pleased that the members of the Czech Pirate Party have approved the coalition agreement between the Pirates and the STAN movement. It is a very strong mandate which I …