[pp.int.general] Pirate Party of Serbia is Finally Officially Registered

[Marko Mitrovic]

Ahoy dear Pirates!

We are hereby delighted to announce that the *Pirate Party of Serbia is
finally officially registered*, in the form of a civil movement. It is an
unfortunate but necessary step for us before registering as a political
party because of a rather restrictive election law in Serbia that require
parties to collect 10000 signatures and a sizable monetary amount prior to
registering.

Being organized in a civil movement, officially called Pirate
Movement(*Piratski
pokret* in Serbian), will help us grow as a party and learn how to work in
more formalized structures than before. We hope that the restrictive law
will offer us a stern challenge which when overcame will make us far more
prepared for serious battle on the ugly Serbian political scene. Always
look for the bright side, eh? :) *We are also able to take part at
elections in capacity of civil movement* (though we would still need 10000
signatures for that), but as the next general elections in Serbia are
scheduled for 2016. we hope to register the political party prior to that.

In the following days we will organize a sort of celebration party (most
likely on next Friday, 7th of December) where everybody will be invited, so
if someone of Pirates from this list is passing by Belgrade feel free to
come.

Now with a registered body we are ready to start more serious work
including, but of course not limited to, expanding our members base,
starting grassroots movements in all cities and towns where that is
possible, organizing projects and events that will give us more air time in
old school media because use of Internet is not widespread in Serbia as
much as we would like to, and many, many more.

*We would also like to thank Aleksandar Blagojević* for all of his hard
work done with establishing Pirates in Serbia and basically running the
show all by himself for couple of years. But sadly, he chose not to be a
part of this Pirate Movement so *we would like you to update all your
contact information for PPRS with the data below, readmit us to PPI-Leaders
mailing list and keep your further official correspondence with the
officially registered Pirate Movement*. Parting ways with Blagojević was
necessary due to his ever increasing authoritarian approaches to
leadership, lack of transparency about his whereabouts, actions and
intentions, continuous name-calling and attempts to oust out any Pirates he
didn't like, and unwillingness to actually be part of any attempt to
register and formalize with even suspicions of sabotage. Thus, we were
sadly and regrettably forced to exclude him (or branch out, depending of
view point), and a handful, if any, of his followers. Nevertheless, *if
Aleksandar Blagojević is willing to reconsider his approach, he is of
course more than welcome to be part of Pirate Movement once again*.

This long(ish) explanation was necessary in order to make members of PPI
know that all Pirates of the new Pirate Movement are old Pirates active for
a long time in Serbia with just the change of one man *“at the helm”*.
That's important because *we would like to continue to be part of PPI and
everything that comes by*.

 This email is written in the name of entire PPRS. We are of course open to
any possible questions.

*New contact information:*

Website: www.piratska.org

Forum for discussions: www.piratska.org/forum/

Contact emails: *hq at piratska.org**, press at piratska.org, tho we will get
every mail sent to any @piratska.org adress :)*

*We will set up new email adress for PPI-Leaders list when PPI board give
us a green light about **re**admittance.*

*Reports from Pirate meetings: http://piratska.org/wiki/Šablon:SastanciBox*
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