Representatives of the French Pirate Party will participate in the election to the National Assembly, lower house of the local parliament.

On behalf of the Pirate Party in the election starts Rouquet Maxime, a 23-year-old engineering student, who was, inter alia, local councilor. His deputy (each party must issue the two candidates) is Laurent Le Besnerais, game designer and member of the coordinating group of French and International Pirate Party Pirate Party in France.

Party in its campaign will include advocating formulate a new legal definition of property rights and respect for civil liberties and promote fair and open access to information and cultural goods.

Elections will be held in Yvelines, located 23 km west of Paris. There need to carry out the re-vote is the result of the July resignation from his position-deputy Christine Boutin (former Minister for Housing) representing Yvelines. The first round of elections will be held on 20 September, the second - if necessary - 27 September.

Pirate Party sees opportunity in the elections to participate in discussions on the controversial "Law HADOPI (Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Œuvres et la Protection des Droits sur Internet.) These provisions create an office for monitoring the distribution of works and protection of the rights on the Internet, giving him the ability to block Internet users to access the Web.

The office had used the so-called. right "three warnings" - respond to notification of copyright owners for works disseminated on the Internet and warn Internet users about the penalties for illegally downloading files from the Web. After twice warning the user would be shut off from the Internet.

Anti-piracy provisions are pushed by the strong lobby of content providers, and many politicians. Meanwhile, cutting off pirates from Network unconstitutional recognized French Constitutional Council - the equivalent of the Polish Constitutional Court.

So radical ways to combat Internet piracy strongly opposed the European Parliament have in the previous term. EP in the new composition after the June elections did not take a position on this matter. It should be noted, however, that the benches sit Pirate Party member - a representative of the Swedish branch of the grouping.