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After recount, Pirates winning a seat at the local council of Ostermundigen (CH)

Gregory Engels November 4, 2020 November 4, 2020

The Pirate Party of the Swiss Canton Berne has successfully appealed the official election result in the town of Ostermundigen, which has got its first pirate councilor. The elections in the town of Ostermundigen (population 17000) has faced a debacle that leaves a lot of question open. On the election day of September 29th, all went well according to the plan, and the final election results have been published right at 19:00. According to it, the Pirate Party has got only seven ballots that had not been altered by the voters (we are not going into much detail here, but the fact that voters have as many votes as there …

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ECHR asks Russia to friendly settle the case with the Pirate Party of Russia

Gregory Engels October 12, 2020 October 15, 2020

Do you remember the seemingly never-ending story of the refusal of Russia’s authorities to register the Pirate Party of Russia? It first started in March 2011, when “In a bizarre twist, the Justice Ministry has failed to distinguish between sea robbers and copyright infringers” as Moscow Times put it. Then a second refusal was received in December 2012 (Pirate Times reported) and a third followed in October 2013. The Russian Pirate had tried to take this decision to court, but by the end of 2014 was running out of options, as all Russian courts upheld the decision of the Russian Ministry of Justice not to register the Pirates in Russia. …