The Czech Pirate Party (Czech: Česká pirátská strana) or Pirates (Czech: Piráti)[1] is a political party in the Czech Republic, founded in 2009. It is the third largest party following the 2017 Czech legislative election.[6] The party's program focuses on political transparencyand accountability, anti-corruption, e-government, small business, tax avoidanceprevention, elements of direct democracy such as public participation in decision making, local development, civil liberties and it also introduced proposals for policies and reforms for taxation, education, science, healthcare, environment, culture, industry and trade, agriculture, justice system and foreign relations.[7]
Ivan Bartoš, chairman of the Pirate Party
Pirate parties were established in many European countries as a protest against the restriction of the civil rights by lobby groups. The party is a member of the Pirate Parties International and European Pirates (PPEU). Mikuláš Peksa is a board member of PPEU,[8] Vojtěch Pikal used to be a co-chairman of PPI in 2013 and 2014.
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