Pirate Party in Bankruptcy Due to Debt of 15,000 Kuna

The Commercial Court in Rijeka has published an announcement inviting creditors of the Pirate Party in bankruptcy to submit their claims against this political party within 45 days, with a total debt slightly exceeding 15,000 kuna.

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The court announcement also calls on representatives of the Pirate Party (PS) to submit a list of the party’s assets and liabilities within 15 days, and if creditors and party representatives do not respond within the legally prescribed deadlines, the court will consider the debtor unable to pay and will ex officio issue a decision to open a simplified bankruptcy procedure.

The Pirate Party was registered in the political parties register in September 2011. The party’s headquarters is listed as Osječka 74a in Rijeka, with Maša Utković as the president and representative of the party, and Marijan Ferić listed as the vice president.

As leaders of this extra-parliamentary party have emphasized in the media, the Pirate Party in Croatia was formed when two Pirate Parties were established simultaneously – in Zagreb and Rijeka. These two groups merged and agreed to proceed with a joint founding as they advocated for the same ideas.

As highlighted, the Pirate Party in Croatia was largely guided by international guidelines and directives set forth in the Uppsala Declaration, which are part of the policy of all pirate parties, the first of which was established in Sweden in 2006.

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Among the proclaimed goals, the leaders of the Croatian Pirate Party emphasized “the adaptation of copyright and related rights to the current situation in the world, changes in patent and intellectual property in terms of reducing restrictions, human rights, the right to privacy, and the protection of personal data.”

The Pirate Party participated in the European Parliament elections in 2013 with its candidate list and won 1.13 percent, or 8,345 votes.