Friday, April 22, 2011

Pirate Party (Finland)

Pirate Party of Finland (Finnish: Piraattipuolue) is a registered political party in Finland. The group currently has 3,200 members. The chairman of the party is Pasi Palmulehto from Hollola. The party is a member of Pirate Parties International.
In January 2008 Matti Hiltunen registered the piraattipuolue.fi domain and set up a bbs bulletin board on the site. In May 2008, about 50 founding members of the party held the founding assembly in Tampere. In September 2008 the party started to collect the 5,000 supporter cards needed to officially register the party.
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