Dirk Poot

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Dirk Poot
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Lijsttrekker and spokesperson, Dutch Pirate Party
In office
2012–2016

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]

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Personal life

Poot studied business administration in Breukelen and medicine in Sint Eustatius. [3] [5]

He currently resides close to Breda in the Netherlands. [2]

Professional work

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]

Political activities

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]

Dutch Pirate Party

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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