Icelandic Pirate Party Wins 3 seats In Parliament 92
First time accepted submitter Thorhs writes "According to preliminary results (all votes counted, no official word yet) the Icelandic Pirate Party was able to secure 3 members of the national Parliament, the first PP to reach a national Parliament. Things were hairy election night, the PP lost all their MPs when they dropped below the 5% barrier 'needed' in the somewhat complex election system. Thankfully they managed to slip back up above, with 5.1% of the total votes. The old 'crash parties', the ones in charge before our epic financial crash, (Independent and Progressive parties) are the prime candidates to form a new government with just over 51% of the votes, getting 40 of 63 seats. RUV (Icelandic) has good coverage."
Re: official statement (Score:3, Informative)
rista punktur rassinn sjóræningjar
Google translate: slash dot butt pirates
Articles with more info on Icelandic Pirate Party (Score:5, Informative)
The Pirate Times introduces the 3 elected representatives: Iceland Report #4 : History Made by a Hair’s Breadth [piratetimes.net]
Rick Falkvinge, founder of the original (Swedish) Pirate Party, comments: celandic Pirate Party WINS, Enters Parliament [falkvinge.net]
Another article on TorrentFreak: Pirate Party Enters Iceland’s National Parliament After Historic Election Win [torrentfreak.com]
Re:EU looses. Iceland wins. (Score:4, Informative)
from wikipedia :
The ECSC was first proposed by French foreign minister Robert Schuman on 9 May 1950 as a way to prevent further war between France and Germany. He declared his aim was to "make war not only unthinkable but materially impossible.
ec, eec and eu are just the current iterations of ecsc.
NATO ? That's a tool of the americans to drag us into wars into the middle east. I would like to get out of it NOW.
Re:To put things in perspective... (Score:4, Informative)
And New Hampshire has a population of 1 million and a House of 435 representatives.
Areas with strong democratic traditions tend to have fewer constituents per politician. And Iceland has a very very long tradition of democracy.