| Party Name: | Pirate Party Switzerland |
| Party Wikicolourid: | PDC |
| German Name: | Piratenpartei Schweiz (PPS) |
| French Name: | Parti Pirate Suisse (PPS) |
| Italian Name: | Partito Pirata Svizzera (PPS) |
| Romansh Name: | Partida da Pirats Svizra (PPS) |
| President: | Guillaume Saouli, Stefan Thöni |
| Foundation: | 12 July 2009[1] |
| Headquarters: | Piratenpartei Schweiz, 3000 Bern |
| Ideology: | Pirate politics Freedom of Information Privacy Liberalism[2] |
| European: | European Pirate Party |
| International: | Pirate Parties International |
| Colours: | Orange |
| Website: | |
| Members: | 2005 |
The Pirate Party Switzerland (de|Piratenpartei Schweiz, fr|Parti Pirate Suisse, it|Partito Pirata Svizzera, rm|Partida da Pirats Svizra) is a political party in Switzerland, based on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party.[3] The party was founded on 12 July 2009 in Zürich, by about 150 people.[4] [5] By the end of February 2012, the PPS had around about 1,800 members.[6]
The first election success happened on 7 March 2010, when Marc Wäckerlin was elected to the Winterthur city council.[7]
Patrick Mächler of the PPS was head member of Pirate Parties International (PPI) from July 2009 to February 2010,[8] the umbrella organisation of the international Pirate Party movement.[9]
On 13 March 2011, the party achieved 0.8% of the votes in a local election in Lausanne. On 3 April, they obtained 0.56% of the vote in a regional election in Zurich.[10] In the federal elections of October 2011, the party failed to win a seat, gathering 0.48% of the popular vote (11,616 votes). On 23 September 2012, PPS member Alex Arnold was elected as part-time mayor of Eichberg.[11] [12]