The Anti-PowerPoint Party is a real Swiss political party "dedicated to decreasing professional use of Microsoft PowerPoint and other forms of presentation software." According to Wikipedia, the party claims presentation software "causes national-economic damage amounting to 2.1 billion CHF" a year and lowers the quality of a presentation in "95% of the cases." It advocates flip charts as an alternative.
Former software engineer Matthias Poehm founded the party ahead of the 2011 Swiss federal elections, after writing a book called The PowerPoint Fallacy. "The fact is that the average PowerPoint presentation creates boredom," he wrote. The party is single-issue and "not specifically opposed to PowerPoint, but to all presentation software."
Its stated goal was to become the fourth largest party in Switzerland and to force a national "referendum in order to seek for a prohibition of PowerPoint." As of February 2021 it had 4,632 members, making it the eighth largest party in the country.
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