[pp.int.general] Collecting signatures for 2009 European Election, and other requirements

[Matthias Weiler]

The facts from Austria:
We need the same amout of signatures as we do for national elections.
That means 2600 signatures. Between 100 and 500 from each province.
We've got time from 68 Days before election (I'm not 100% sure about
that) until 37 Days before election.
A problem is, that austrians have to sign at the municipal office of
their residence and then send it to the party.
Austria has about 6,350,000 voters.

As an alternative to the 2600 signatures, support from three members of
the national parliament or one member of the EU-parliament would be okay
to run for election. Is this the same in other european countries?

greets


Arek Wójcik wrote:
> not exactly Jakub. We need 15000 signatures in at least half districts (7).
> That's why we need them over 100.000 collected.
> 
> 2008/7/11 Jakub Laskowski <jakubl at gmail.com>:
> 
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Ole Husgaard <pirat at sparre.dk> wrote:
>>
>>> Carlos Ayala skrev:
>>>> In today's Pirate Manifesto session, Partia Piratow representative told
>> that in Poland 100.000!!! signatures are required,
>>> To be fair, only 5000 signatures are needed to run for elections. Poland
>>> is divided into about 40 election districts, and you need 5000
>>> signatures in a district to participate in elections in that district.
>>> If you have your 5000 signatures in more than half the districts, you
>>> can participate in elections in all districts.
>> That's right for local parliament elections, but for EU parliament
>> situation is slightly different. There are only 13 districts, and we
>> need 10 000 signatures in each district. If we collect signatures in 7
>> districts, we can participate in elections in whole country. Like in
>> Denmark, signer also has to put his full name, address and SSN.
>> Furthermore, we can't start collecting signatures before elections are
>> announced by our president (I'm not sure, but Blazej told me that - I
>> guess he knows that issue much better than me), and we have to collect
>> all signatures 40 days before elections, so we have only 50 days to do
>> it.
>>
>> In my opinion, it's just impossible to collect all this signatures in
>> such short period, and Poland probably won't be able to run for 2009
>> EU parliament elections.
>>
>> --
>> Jakub Laskowski
>> jakubl at 4me.pl
>> http://hosting.webat.pl/ http://www.swiri.org/
>> http://www.partiapiratow.org.pl
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