<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>I hope that Anton's version comes -"<span style="font-style: italic;">merely a proposition</span>", "<span style="font-style: italic;">not an absolute statement</span>", "<span style="font-style: italic;">a draft</span>", "<span style="font-style: italic;">pretty open</span>", etc- to be the good one, instead of Marten's "<span style="font-style: italic;">finalised</span>" declaration, "<span style="font-style: italic;">basic </span><span style="font-style: italic;">plattform for the European Parliaments election of 2009</span>". Basically because, while some parts may be acceptable for PIRATA and some others may be arguable -we miss several things-, there is one special part that it's nonsensical, suicidal and -according to PIRATA's Statute- unacceptable:<br><br>"<span style="font-style:
italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the European Parliament</span>, it is the party groups that are the key to getting influence. Once elected, we will discuss with the <span style="font-weight: bold;">groups that could be of interest</span>, to determine which group is closest to us, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">join that group</span>.</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Inside the group, we will <span style="font-weight: bold;">do our utmost to persuade the other members of the group to join our position</span> on the issues that fall within our political platform. <span style="font-weight: bold;">In return</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">we´ll</span> listen to the advice of the group on all other issues, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">vote with the group</span> unless we have some strong reasons not to</span>"<br><br>In the name of whatever do you
believe in, what were you thinking about when you wrote such paragraphs?<br><br>- joining a Parliamentary Group means ruining our ideological neutrality, and it's the shortest way to our political hara-kiri; get the Spanish United Left example, where they had 22 seats in 1996 until their new Chairman decided that they preferred socialists in charge rather than popular, at any cost ... and that's what they got, as nowadays they only have 2 seats and have lost 1 million and a half voters; when Party B mimicks Party A, nobody chooses the succedaneous if having access to the original brand, parties without personality are condemned to death<br>- what does <span style="font-style: italic;">do our utmost</span> mean? so, are you suggesting to join a parliamentary group without having any grant of them supporting our stances?<br>- in return of nothing -as you have no grant of them supporting us-, you're suggesting to vote with the group -in non-core
issues!!!!!- ... of course, unless we have some strong reasons not to -what about ... keeping our neutrality in non-core issues?-<br>- finally, what does "<span style="font-style: italic;">groups that could be of interest</span>" mean? there are only 7 groups in Europarliament -People's Party, Socialists, Liberals, Europe of the Nations, Greens, United/Nordic Green Leftists, and the euroskepticals (Lega Norte, Polish Family Party, Ortodox, etc)-; nobody writes such statement without having clear, at least, which groups <span style="font-style: italic;">couldn't be of interest</span>, so being only 7 groups, in which groups are you thinking exactly about?<br><br>PIRATA's Statute states in <a href="http://www.partidopirata.es/wiki/Statute/En#Article_25:_Rules_of_the_Institutional_Groups"><span style="font-weight: bold;">article 25.a.2</span></a> -it's not pretty well translated but it may serve its purpose- that "<span style="font-style: italic;">"PIRATA"
will not be part in any coalition government, nor will give
inconditional support to any of the parties represented on the chambers
of the different parliaments where "PIRATA" obtains paliamentary
representation</span>", so we're not going to join such proposal. Because, being as tiny as we currently are, we aren't willing to pave the way to our own political death. Regards,<br><br><br> Carlos
Ayala<br> ( Aiarakoa )<br><br> Partido Pirata National Board's
Chairman<br></div></div><br>
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