The Internet Party (Partido de Internet in Spanish) is a political party founded on November 22, 2009 in Spain that tries to develop a
liquid democracy system within the current legal system. The Internet Party has no ideology. They support an
open list
Open list describes any variant of party-list proportional representation where voters have at least some influence on the order in which a Political party, party's candidates are elected. This is as opposed to closed list, in which party lists ...
system where the elected members act representing the decisions taken by citizens in the Internet platform.
During the
Spanish general election 2011, the Internet Party presented eight candidates in the electoral district of
Cádiz
Cádiz ( , , ) is a city in Spain and the capital of the Province of Cádiz in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. It is located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula off the Atlantic Ocean separated fr ...
and received 603 votes (0.09%).
See also
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List of direct democracy parties
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Direct democracy
Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the Election#Electorate, electorate directly decides on policy initiatives, without legislator, elected representatives as proxies, as opposed to the representative democracy m ...
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E-democracy
E-democracy (a blend of the terms Electronic publishing, electronic and democracy), also known as digital democracy or Internet democracy, uses information and communication technology (ICT) in politics, political and governance processes. The ...
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Demoex
Demoex, an appellation short for ''democracy experiment'', is a local Swedish political party and an experiment with direct democracy in Vallentuna, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. It uses the Internet to make it possible for any member to particip ...
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2009 establishments in Spain
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Political parties established in 2009
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