[pp.int.general] Transparency in the party

[Dario]

2013/2/26 Zbigniew Łukasiak <zzbbyy at gmail.com>

>  >
> > I never said "less transparency". I said that our parties must have be
> > transparency for our members (with party's facts also public for
> everyone)
> > and ask for governments being transparent to citizens. In other words:
> > transparency inside the group (party/government) to its members
> > (pirates/citizens).
> >
> > By facts I mean information not attached to opinion, like financial
> > statements, etc.
>
> The gradualist principle sounds reasonable - but in Poland political
> parties are subject of the Polish analogue of Freedom of Information
> Act - and thus all documents that the party has are in effect public.
> How is it in your country?
>
>
There is no Freedom of Information Act in Spain. We are fighting for
something like that.

Documents produced by the party can be also be public, of course, but: Does
your Freedom of Information Act force you to release even any record the
party produces? Or only some kind of documents?

The point is to pinpoint what was PP-DE fault and find an equilibrium
between transparency and protection against attacks from other parties.


> I believe that having a policy of being radically transparent has also
> additional benefits.  First it is important to practice what you
> preach - and usually there is some variance in practice - so it is
> good to have a big margin there.  Second it is also a good training
> ground - a good way to test what we could suggest to the government.
>

I agree but we must take into account that we are not alone. Also, we are
all citizen, so we must be able to access/demand anything to government. We
are pirates, so we must be able to access/demand anything to our parties.

If we are not pirates, we must be able to demand more info to parties, also
accessing important information about them.

Discussions are not a big deal to non-pirates, they don't care at all about
who is against who inside the party, except for other politicians/medium
that want "dirty issues" from pirates to be public, like Der Spiegel.

By the way, here in Spain we are not able to publicly show who is a member
of a political party. So, we are not able to open our discussion lists if
they are restricted to members, as they are, because this would leak
memberships. We have a public forum, not attached to membership, but our
mailing lists are closed. And we are transparent and working for
transparency.

-- 
Dario Castañé
http://www.dario.im | http://twitter.com/im_dario
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