This Candidate for the Dutch Pirate Party Shows He Has ‘Nothing to Hide’ With a Naked Campaign Poster
It’s election season again! (Don’t get excited all at once.) Sure, elections are deeply important — particularly the midterms this year — but they’re not exactly what you’d call sexy. But no one told the Dutch Pirate Party that — their latest campaign poster features full-frontal male nudity, and we are so here for it.
The posters went up in Amsterdam, promoting Jelle de Graaf, leader of the Amsterdam branch of the party. They show a fully nude de Graaf holding a sign reading “nothing to hide.”
This isn’t de Graaf’s first election. In 2014, he became the first member of the Dutch Pirate Party to be elected to his city’s district committee.
What is the Dutch Pirate Party?
Pirate Parties have been popping up all over the world, but mostly in Europe. The first Pirate Party was founded in Sweden in 2006, as a response to overly restrictive copyright laws. Though there are Pirate Parties in many countries — including the United States — they’ve only seen success in a few countries, most notably Iceland and the Czech Republic.
The Pirate Parties are left-leaning — typically devoted to civil libertarianism but social liberalism. They’re also highly technologically inclined. In addition to changes to copyright law, they also are for open access to scientific research and data. Pirate parties also advocate for political transparency, direct democracy, privacy rights and freedom of speech.
The Dutch Pirate Party follows these principles as well, however they also want to change Dutch copyright law to make non-commercial use free. While they have run in elections since 2010, Jelle de Graaf is the only candidate to have won his seat.
The Dutch Pirate Party “Jelle de Graaf Has Nothing to Hide” Poster (click the pic for uncensored)
