The Finnish Pirate Party, Piraattipuolue, keeps growing fast. Since its registration as an official political party which took place in mid-August this year, the party has attracted already over 2,500 members and is presently in the process of setting up its national network of local pirate organizations. The party has also an active youth organization Piraattinuoret (Pirate Youth of Finland) which engages the youngest generation of Finnish pirates in social and political activities on a regular basis. In a recent interview with Piraattiliitto, the chairman of Piraattipuolue, Pasi Palmulehto, confirmed that the interest in the party is high and that it will be only a question of time when the party will reach the membership of its closest rivals, Perussuomalaiset ('True Finns'), an EU and immigration critical party of 2,700 members, and the Finnish Green Party ('Green League') of 3,100-3,800 members (depending on the source). Both these rivals have seats in the Finnish parliament, with Greens sitting in the present center-right coalition government led by prime minister Matti Vanhanen from the Center Party.

Finland is right now amidst a serious political crisis due to ever new scandalous revelations about the corrupted election funding practices of the largest political parties in the latest parlamentary election of 2007. The possible dissolution of the Parliament and new elections are being seriously discussed, and the left opposition along with some government party members see that Prime Minister Vanhanen has lost his political credibility. He himself has received election campaign money from dubious sources. Pirate Party leader Pasi Palmulehti says that the pirates would rather prefer to have the 1.5 years of preparation time until the next regular parliamentary election of 2011, but should the Parliament be prematurely dissolved, the pirates will participate in the early election with full fighting spirit. Pirate Party has since its founding emphasized and practiced openness in its financing and decision making, which should work to its benefit in the present political atmosphere where the old parties are tainted by the election funding corruption scandal.