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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsre: all this "3rd party" talk, have you heard the Pirate Party actually won 3 seats in Iceland?
Pirate Party wins 3 seats in Icelandic parliament for its best result worldwide
One of the new Pirates, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, has a long history with WikiLeaks.
by Cyrus Farivar - Apr 28 2013, 12:20pm CDT
On Saturday, Iceland held national parliamentary elections and the newly-formed Pirate Party of Iceland won 5.1 percent of the vote. This earned the party three seats in parliament, making the new Píratar the most successful Pirate Party in any national legislative body around the globe.
Icelands unicameral parliament, known in Icelandic as the Alþing (All-thing), has just 63 members to represent the countrys 320,000 people.
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The trio, along with other members of Icelands digerati (including Smári McCarthy, who also is one of the organizers of the International Modern Media Initiative), founded the party just five months ago. The Pirate Party at large was founded in Sweden in 2006, focusing on a digital agenda including items such as IP law reform and Internet policies.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/pirate-party-wins-3-seats-in-icelandic-parliament-for-its-best-result-worldwide/
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re: all this "3rd party" talk, have you heard the Pirate Party actually won 3 seats in Iceland? (Original Post)
Electric Monk
May 2013
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MineralMan
(146,286 posts)1. Arrrr...
Dr. Strange
(25,919 posts)2. Won three seats...
or downloaded them illegally?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)3. parliamentary system, so proportional representation.
If you assume 200,000 voters, 5% is 10,000 voters, not a difficult number of people to put together.
Autumn
(45,056 posts)4. Oh cool. Do they get to talk like pirates?
I vote arghhhh. Shiver me timbers, I hope they do.
http://www.thepiratesrealm.com/pirate%20talk.html
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)5. Yep..heard that on Torrent Freak.
Veddy nice.