Internet Party (New Zealand)

Internet Party
LeaderVacant
PresidentSuzie Dawson[1]
FounderKim Dotcom
Founded13 May 2014
IdeologyCollaborative e-democracy
Internet freedom
Privacy
Copyright reform
Political positionSyncretic
Colours  Purple
MPs in the House of Representatives
0 / 120
Website
internet.org.nz

The Internet Party was a registered political party in New Zealand that promoted Internet freedom and privacy. The party was founded in January 2014 with the financial support and promotion of internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, and was first led by former Alliance MP Laila Harré, then by citizen journalist Suzie Dawson.

The party contested the 2014 New Zealand election as part of an electoral alliance with the Mana Movement. It also contested the 2017 general election, independent of Mana. In both cases it did not win any seats in the New Zealand House of Representatives.[2][3] The party was deregistered by the New Zealand Electoral Commission in June 2018 after its membership dropped below the 500 required for registration.[4]

The party has not contested local or general elections since the 2017 general election. The party applied for broadcasting funding for the 2020 general election, but did not contest the election.

History

Kim Dotcom founded the file-sharing website Megaupload in 2005. It was shut down in January 2012 by the US government and Dotcom was arrested by the New Zealand Police. In September 2013, Dotcom revealed an interest in setting up a political party[5] and on 15 January 2014, Dotcom announced the creation of the Internet Party, including its name and logo.[6][7] He intended to hold a launch party on 20 January, two years after the raid on his house and the day before his 40th birthday. He distributed 25,000 tickets but was forced to cancel for fear of breaching electoral law.[8][9]

The Internet Party started to sign up members on 27 March 2014,[10] and was the first New Zealand party to do so through the use of a phone app.[11] It became a registered political party on 13 May 2014.[12] Dotcom provided NZ$3.5 million in funding to the party, which was the largest personal contribution to a political party on record in New Zealand.[13] To select its first leader, the party ran an Idol-style candidate search and appointed Laila Harré, a former Alliance MP and cabinet minister.

2014 election

See also: Internet Party and Mana Movement

In May 2014, Internet Party chief executive Vikram Kumar and Mana Movement leader Hone Harawira announced a merger of the two parties, to be known as the Internet Party and Mana Movement, or the abbreviated Internet Mana.[14] The party and its logo were registered with the New Zealand Electoral Commission on 24 July 2014, allowing the coalition party to contest the party vote.[15] The Internet Party and Mana Movement contested the 2014 general election as a single entity. Mana already held an electoral seat in Parliament – Harawira held the Māori electorate of Te Tai Tokerau – and expected to retain this seat. Under New Zealand's electoral rules, a party without an electoral seat needed 5% of the party vote to enter Parliament, but if it won an electorate seat it would be entitled to enter Parliament and potentially bring in more MPs. The memorandum of understanding stated that the agreement would remain in force until at least six weeks after polling day. The two component parties agreed to review their arrangement within five weeks of the election.[14]

Multiple opinion polls prior to the election suggested Internet Mana could receive more than two per cent of the party vote,[16][17][18][19] which would give Internet Mana multiple MPs if it could retain Te Tai Tokerau. The only poll of that electorate suggested a very close race; in that poll 38% said they would give Harawira their electoral vote, while 37% said they would vote for his main challenger, Labour's Kelvin Davis.[20]

On election night, Harawira lost Te Tai Tokerau, receiving 8,969 electorate votes to Davis's 9,712.[21] Internet Mana received 1.42% of the party votes.[2] Without an electorate seat or 5% of the party vote, the coalition failed to have any representation.

Dotcom said to reporters on election night that "I take full responsibility for this loss tonight, because the brand—the brand Kim Dotcom—was poison for what we were trying to achieve."[22] The parties later separated. After the election, Laila Harré resigned as leader of the Internet Party[23] and the party told its members that it was concentrating on efforts to build its internal structures to support its grassroots movement.[24] In December 2016, Kim Dotcom posted a poll on Twitter asking if his followers wanted the Internet Party to stand in the 2017 election.[25]

2017 election

The Internet Party remained leaderless until 8 February 2017, when it appointed Suzie Dawson, an activist and citizen journalist who had been seeking temporary asylum in Russia since 2016, as the party's new leader for the 2017 election.[26] The party ran eight list candidates.[27] During the 2017 general election, the Internet Party won 499 votes (0.02%) – the lowest party vote result for any registered party – and failed to win any seats in the New Zealand House of Representatives.[3]

In a tweet of April 2018, Suzie Dawson said that she was no longer eligible to run for Parliament as she had lived outside New Zealand for more than three years, and so was resigning as party leader. She said that she had been elected party president instead.[28]

The party was deregistered on 12 June 2018 because its membership had dropped below the 500 required for registration.[4]

Current status

As of August 2022, the Internet Party has not announced that it has dissolved. However, the party has not contested local or general elections since the 2017 general election. The party remains unregistered.[29] As of August 2022, its website is live and lists Suzie Dawson as its leader, but all links on the page redirect to an archived version of the site from 2018, stored on the Internet Archive.[30] The party applied for broadcasting funding in May 2020 for the 2020 general election. It received $41,457 of funding conditional on achieving party registration,[31] but it did not register. In August 2022, party founder Kim Dotcom tweeted that the party would be "in the Beehive" in 2024.[32]

Policies

The party used a consultative process to form policies with its membership using online platforms with policy writers following the forum in the background.[33]

During its launch in 2014, the party set an agenda which included the following broad aims:[8][34]

  • Provide unlimited high-speed internet to all New Zealanders, 50% cheaper than current prices;
  • Build another submarine communications cable connecting New Zealand to the world;
  • Create new high-tech jobs;
  • Restrict government surveillance;
  • Review the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement;
  • Copyright reform;
  • Encourage clean energy and green technology;
  • Reduce social inequality.

Electoral results

Election Candidates nominated Seats won Votes Vote share % Government
Electorate List
2014 15[35] 32[35]
0 / 121
 34,095 1.42% Not in parliament
2017 0 8[36]
0 / 120
 499 0.02% Not in parliament

See also

References

  1. ^ "Internet Party of New Zealand". internet.org.nz. Archived from the original on 14 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b "New Zealand 2014 General Election Official Results". New Zealand Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 13 June 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  3. ^ a b "2017 General Election - Official Result". New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Cancellation of Party Registration". New Zealand Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 14 June 2018.
  5. ^ "Kim Dotcom to enter politics?". Fairfax New Zealand. 1 September 2013. Archived from the original on 9 November 2013.
  6. ^ Patrice Dougan (15 January 2014). "Kim Dotcom reveals name of new political party". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  7. ^ "Kim Dotcom unveils the Internet Party". 3 News. 15 January 2014. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  8. ^ a b Milne, Jonathan (23 March 2014). "Politicians of all stripes welcome at Kim's place". NZ Herald. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  9. ^ Davison, Isaac (16 January 2014). "Kim Dotcom cans Auckland party". NZ Herald. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  10. ^ Bennett, Adam (27 March 2014). "Kim Dotcom launches Internet Party". NZ Herald. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  11. ^ Bennett, Adam (24 March 2014). "Dotcom's Internet Party app approved". NZ Herald. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  12. ^ "Registration of Internet Party and Logo". New Zealand Electoral Commission. 13 May 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  13. ^ Hutchison, Jonathan (18 September 2014). "Online Renegade, Wanted in U.S., Shakes Up New Zealand Election". NZ Herald. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  14. ^ a b "Memorandum of Understanding between the MANA Movement and the Internet Party". 25 May 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  15. ^ "Registration of Internet Party and MANA Movement logo". Electoral Commission. 24 July 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  16. ^ "National (48%) down but still holds clear election winning lead over Labour/ Greens (40%) as Prime Minister John Key announces $212 million 'roading and construction' package for regional New Zealand". Roy Morgan. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  17. ^ "Digipoll: Minor parties surge as Labour sinks lower". NZ Herald. 28 August 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  18. ^ "Election 2014: Political dirt doesn't stick to Nats in new Herald-Digipoll". NZ Herald. 4 September 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  19. ^ "National unscathed by Dirty Politics - poll". TVNZ. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  20. ^ "Te Tai Tokerau poll results highlight voter concerns". Māori Television. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  21. ^ "Official Count Results -- Te Tai Tokerau".
  22. ^ Hutchison, Jonathan (20 September 2014). "New Zealand's Ruling National Party Is Re-elected". New York Times. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  23. ^ "Harré has officially resigned from the Internet Party". Your NZ. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  24. ^ Executive Committee By-election called, Archived 4 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine Internet Party, 1 February 2015
  25. ^ "Kim Dotcom hints at return of the Internet Party". Radio NZ. 26 December 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  26. ^ Hurley, Sam (17 June 2017). "Kim Dotcom's Internet Party names exiled citizen journalist Suzie Dawson as leader". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  27. ^ "2017 General Election Party Lists". Electoral Commission. 31 August 2017. Archived from the original on 20 April 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  28. ^ Suzie Dawson [@Suzi3D] (27 April 2018). "Notice: I am no longer eligible to stand as a candidate for Parliament as I am now in excess of 3yrs outside of NZ. Accordingly I have today stepped down as Party Leader of @InternetPartyNZ & have been unanimously appointed to the role of Party President. Full statement to follow" (Tweet). Retrieved 9 January 2023 – via Twitter.
  29. ^ "Register of political parties". elections.nz. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  30. ^ "Internet Party". Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  31. ^ "2020 Broadcasting Allocation Decision" (PDF). Elections.nz.
  32. ^ Sowman-Lund, Stewart (31 August 2022). "Kim Dotcom claims Internet Party will be 'in the Beehive' in 2024". The Spinoff. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  33. ^ "Internet Party". Archived from the original on 13 January 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  34. ^ "Internet Party Action Agenda". Internet Party. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  35. ^ a b "Electoral Commission releases part and candidate list for 2014 election". New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  36. ^ "Party and Candidate Lists for 2017 Election". New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 7 October 2017.

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