re: all this "3rd party" talk, have you heard the Pirate Party actually won 3 seats in Iceland? [View all]
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.
Iceland’s unicameral parliament, known in Icelandic as the Alþing (“All-thing”), has just 63 members to represent the country’s 320,000 people.
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The trio, along with other members of Iceland’s 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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