Youth wings Subnational Multi-national The Pirate Party Switzerland (German: Piratenpartei Schweiz, French: Parti Pirate Suisse, Italian: Partito Pirata Svizzera, Romansh: Partida da Pirats Svizra) is a political party in Switzerland, based on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party.
[7] Patrick Mächler of the PPS was head member of Pirate Parties International (PPI) from July 2009 to February 2010,[8] the umbrella organisation of the international Pirate Party movement.
[9] On 13 March 2011, the party achieved 0.8% of the votes in a local election in Lausanne.
On 3 April, they obtained 0.56% of the vote in a regional election in Zurich.
On 23 September 2012, PPS member Alex Arnold was elected as part-time mayor of Eichberg.