Pirate Party of Galicia

Pirates of Galicia (Galician: Piratas de Galicia, PIRATA.GAL), is a political party in Galicia, Spain. It inherits the ideology from Pirate Party of Sweden, that seeks the reform of intellectual property and patent laws, the inclusion of direct democracy in the political system and the defense of Human Rights within and outside the Internet.^[1]

Pirates of Galicia Piratas de Galicia
Founded	26 December 2011
Headquarters	Santiago de Compostela
Ideology	Pirate politics Freedom of Information Privacy protection Intellectual property reform Transparency of government Direct democracy
National affiliation	Pirate Party (Spain)
International affiliation	Pirate Parties International
Website
PiratasDeGalicia.org
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History

The party was founded on December 26, 2011, and it is officially admitted in the Register of Political Parties of the Ministry of Interior of Spain on January 26, 2012.^[2][3]

They ran elections for the first time on October 21, 2012, to the Galician Parliament in the provinces of Ourense and Pontevedra. The results were 336 votes in Ourense (0,18% over participation) and 1215 in Pontevedra (0,24% over participation).^[4]