Dirk Poot | |
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Lijsttrekker and spokesperson, Dutch Pirate Party | |
In office 2012–2016 | |
Preceded by | Samir Allioui |
Succeeded by | Ancilla van de Leest |
Personal details | |
Born | 1968 (age 55–56) Utrecht, [1] Netherlands |
Political party | Pirate Party of the Netherlands |
Residence(s) | Breda, Netherlands |
Occupation | programmer |
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Dirk Poot (born 1968) is a Dutch programmer and politician who is a former lijsttrekker and spokesperson for the board of the Pirate Party of the Netherlands. Poot was the lijsttrekker of the Dutch Pirate Party for the Dutch parliamentary elections in 2012 [2] [3] [4] and fourth on the list for the Pirate Party in the 2010 Dutch parliamentary elections. [2]
Poot studied business administration in Breukelen and medicine in Sint Eustatius. [3] [5]
He currently resides close to Breda in the Netherlands. [2]
Poot is a self-employed computer programmer, focusing on medical and education software. [2] [3] [5] [6] He has previously worked as a physician. [3]
When he was younger, Poot was a member of the Jongerenorganisatie Vrijheid en Democratie (JOVD), the youth organization of the main Dutch conservative party, the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). [2]
He has been blogging about democracy, privacy, and medical issues since 2005. [2] He has written about collection and storage of sensitive information in government databases, in particular the Electronic Patient Record (EPR). [3]
Poot has been active with the Pirate Party since late 2009. He joined the party after discovering it through IRC while blogging about Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. [2]
He was fourth on the list for the Pirate Party in the 2010 Dutch parliamentary elections. [2] Since 2011, he has been a member of the board of the Dutch Pirate Party, and the board's spokesperson since December 2011. [2] [3] [4] In the 2012 parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, he was the first candidate of the Dutch Pirate Party. [2] [3] [6]
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