Andrew Reitemeyer

Kim Dotcom’s Internet Party Joins Electoral Alliance in New Zealand May 29, 2014 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News On 27 May 2014 the Internet Party of New Zealand joined with the left wing MANA Movement to form an alliance that will fight the New Zealand elections in September 2014. The new party will be called Internet MANA and the terms of the alliance are in an open memorandum of understanding. While this has been openly discussed for a while, it still comes as a shock to many in New Zealand as they seem to be such unlikely partners. Kim Dotcom is regarded as a neo-liberal and …

The Pirates of New Zealand Elect a New Board August 23, 2014 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News Following hard on the heels of Iceland and Finland, the honorary Nordic country in the south Pacific – New Zealand – has elected a new executive council. After a year of declining membership and a board that did not meet regularly the Pirate Party of New Zealand has elected a new executive council. The structure of the board has been simplified to consist of chairperson, secretary, treasurer and two ordinary board members. The results were  made public on 23 August 2014. The new board Chairman: Andrew Reitemeyer Secretary: Ben Vidulich Treasurer: …

The Bavarian Pirate Party win seats in Local Elections March 19, 2014 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News This post is also available in: French The Bavarian Pirates expected a difficult time in the most conservative state in Germany, Bavaria. In the federal elections they could only get 1.9% and similar disappointing results in the state elections. The hurdles for participating in the municipal elections is very high and many Pirate candidates chose to run on open or shared candidate lists with parties that they shared policy objectives with.  There were Pirates running in 38 municipalities on the ballot. That is not many, as a total of …

PPAU Crowdfunded AUD 10,000 for Their Upcoming Election March 18, 2014 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News In a press release, the Pirate Party of Australia (PPAU) announced that on March 10th 2014 they met their campaign funding target for the upcoming Senate election in Western Australia. The senate seats are being re-contested on 5 April 2014 because ballots were lost in the 2013 elections and the courts ruled the election invalid. PPAU raised the extraordinary sum of AUD 10,000 (EUR 6,500) entirely through crowdfunding in just under two weeks. This was a risky move since a failure to reach the amount set as goal in the crowdfunding would result …