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Pirates Become Biggest Political Party in Local Czech Election

posted by azrael on Tuesday October 21 2014, @01:06PM   Printer-friendly
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gewg_ writes:

TorrentFreak reports:

Last weekend there were local elections in the Czech Republic, and the local Pirate Party [had] dozens of candidates on the ballots.

The Pirates campaigned with a program that advocates more Government transparency, more involvement for citizens, less copyright monopolies and the use of free software.

This message was received well by the public as 21 Pirate Party representatives were voted into regional parliaments. In addition, several other Pirates gained seats through the lists of other local parties.

One of the biggest victories was booked in Mariánské lázně where the Pirates came out as the biggest party with 21% of the total vote. [Google translation fails] This means that the Czech town may soon have its first Pirate mayor.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21 2014, @01:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21 2014, @01:11PM (#108206)

    Capitalism for what I make.

    That's really what it amounts to. We'll see how this works out for the Czech game and phone app developers.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21 2014, @01:29PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21 2014, @01:29PM (#108212)

      Care to explain? Or are you just throwing out keywords in the hope that someone will believe you without thinking?

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21 2014, @02:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21 2014, @02:53PM (#108250)

      Socialism, not communism. Communism is about building a classless socialist society, ie a proper superset. Not that socialism is appropriate either, the pirate movement is pretty much anti-authoritarian as opposed to anti-market.

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday October 21 2014, @01:27PM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Tuesday October 21 2014, @01:27PM (#108211) Homepage
    If:
    """
    Česká pirátská strana
    obhajuje 3 mandáty, strana získala 1 321 908 hlasů (obsadili 21 mandátů)
    21
    """
    is being mapped onto the Czech pirate party getting 21% of the vote, then I am forced to conclude that
    """
    Křesťanská a demokratická unie - Československá strana lidová
    obhajuje 3 738 mandátů, strana získala 4 865 956 hlasů (obsadili 3 792 mandátů)
    3 792
    """
    means that the Christain Democrats have got 3792% of the vote.

    I'm glad to see democracy is still alive and well here in Eastern Europe!
    --
    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves

    • (Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Tuesday October 21 2014, @01:37PM

      by WizardFusion (498) on Tuesday October 21 2014, @01:37PM (#108218) Journal

      Google Translate and a bit of "eh?"...

      Czech Pirate Party
      defending 3 seats, the party received 1,321,908 votes (21 seats occupied)

      Christian and Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party
      defends 3,738 seats, the party won 4,865,956 votes (3,792 occupied seats)

      • (Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Tuesday October 21 2014, @01:49PM

        by WizardFusion (498) on Tuesday October 21 2014, @01:49PM (#108223) Journal

        Full (down to 20) results....
        (Google Translate - so I apologise for the wrong names)

        Association of Independent candidates - local associations total
        defends 30,597 seats, the party won 11,564,737 votes (32,779 occupied seats)

        Independent candidates
        defends 6,595 seats, the party won 692,294 votes (6,333 occupied seats)

        Christian and Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party
        defends 3,738 seats, the party won 4,865,956 votes (3,792 occupied seats)

        Czech Social Democratic Party
        defends 4,584 seats, the party won 12,535,655 votes (3,773 occupied seats)

        The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
        defends 3,189 seats, the party won 7,730,503 votes (2,510 occupied seats)

        Civic Democratic Party
        defends 5,112 seats, the party won 8,930,650 votes (2,214 occupied seats)

        The sum of the other parties (256)
        The parties received 51,131,893 votes. (10720 seats)

        Association "STAN" NK
        defends 1,097 seats, the party won 1,692,749 votes (1,749 occupied seats)

        YES 2011
        advocating no mandate, Party won 14,458,998 votes (occupied 1,600 seats)

        Mayors and Independents
        defends 1,243 seats, the party won 1,206,278 votes (1,324 occupied seats)

        TOP 09
        defends 1,509 seats, the party won 8,324,195 votes (726 seats occupied)

        SNK European Democrats
        defends the 551 seats, the party won 373,807 votes (355 seats occupied)

        Association of ODS, NK
        defending 87 seats, the party won 457,626 votes (346 seats occupied)

        "Association of Partisans"
        defends the 243 seats, the party won 242,748 votes (333 seats occupied)

        Association KDU-CSL, NK
        defends the 210 seats, the party won 551,593 votes (324 seats occupied)

        Association of TOP 09, NK
        defends the 140 seats, the party won 565,609 votes (316 seats occupied)

        INDEPENDENT
        defends the 227 seats, the party won 706,206 votes (228 seats occupied)

        Independents
        defends the 163 seats, the party won 245,429 votes (191 seats occupied)

        Association SZ, NK
        defending 89 seats, the party won 564,395 votes (166 seats occupied)

        MOVEMENT FOR INDEPENDENT harmonious development of villages and towns
        defends the 103 seats, the party won 159,223 votes (135 seats occupied)

        The choice for city
        defends the 153 seats, the party won 445,707 votes (132 seats occupied)

        Green Party
        defends the 156 seats, the party won 1,150,406 votes (114 seats occupied)

        Mayors for the Liberec region
        defending 74 seats, the party won 285,328 votes (109 seats occupied)

        Association Communists, NK
        defending 97 seats, the party won 59,881 votes (108 seats occupied)

        Association SLK, NK
        defending 64 seats, the party won 101,508 votes (107 seats occupied)

        Association SNK ED, NK
        defends the 163 seats, the party won 394,622 votes (103 seats occupied)

        Party of Free Citizens
        defending 29 seats, the party received 1,821,767 votes (68 seats occupied)

        Moravians
        defending 61 seats, the party won 60,305 votes (60 seats occupied)

        Association of Social Democrats, NK
        defends the 105 seats, the party won 26,234 votes (58 seats occupied)

        Ostravak
        defending 20 seats, the party won 797,271 votes (55 seats occupied)

        For Prague
        does not advocate any mandate, the party won 766,962 votes (55 seats occupied)

        Dawn of direct democracy
        does not advocate any mandate, the party won 647,837 votes (54 seats occupied)

        Association VPM, NK
        defending 53 seats, the party won 175,245 votes (49 seats occupied)

        Association NV, NK
        defending 35 seats, the party won 69,190 votes (46 seats occupied)

        "South Bohemians 2012"
        does not advocate any mandate, the party won 80,799 votes (46 seats occupied)

        Association of SD-SN, NK
        defending 25 seats, the party won 44,494 votes (44 seats occupied)

        Association Change, NK
        does not advocate any mandate, the party won 188,653 votes (39 seats occupied)

        Association B10.cz, NK
        does not advocate any mandate, the party won 278,847 votes (39 seats occupied)

        Sport and Health
        does not advocate any mandate, the party won 177,263 votes (37 seats occupied)

        Association party Persons, NK
        defending 15 seats, the party won 127,986 votes (35 seats occupied)

        Association patriot, NK
        does not advocate any mandate, the party won 98,852 votes (35 seats occupied)

        A coalition of Christian Democrats, party Persons
        defending 63 seats, the party won 149,844 votes (34 seats occupied)

        Open City Hall
        does not advocate any mandate, the party won 94,231 votes (33 seats occupied)

        Page of citizens' rights
        defending 89 seats, the party won 159,028 votes (31 seats occupied)

        Coexistentia
        defending 33 seats, the party won 30,874 votes (30 seats occupied)

        Fair play - HNPD
        defending 30 seats, the party won 28,479 votes (30 seats occupied)

        Union for sport and health
        defending 31 seats, the party won 71,835 votes (29 seats occupied)

        Association of Alternative, NK
        defending 45 seats, the party won 62,575 votes (27 seats occupied)

        YES Association, 2011 NK
        does not advocate any mandate, the party won 35,328 votes (27 seats occupied)

        Association SPOZ, NK
        1 defends the mandate, the party won 91,374 votes (26 seats occupied)

        VÝCHODOČEŠI
        does not advocate any mandate, the party won 44,182 votes (26 seats occupied)

        Mayors for citizens
        does not advocate any mandate, the party won 8,748 votes (26 seats occupied)

        Association KDU-CSL, SZ, NK
        defending 13 seats, the party won 155,795 votes (24 seats occupied)

        Association SZ, STAN, Pirates, NK
        does not advocate any mandate, the party won 204,953 votes (22 seats occupied)

        A coalition of Christian Democrats, ODS
        defending 29 seats, the party won 11,255 votes (21 seats occupied)

        Czech Pirate Party
        defending 3 seats, the party received 1,321,908 votes (21 seats occupied)

        Coalition SSCR and PPL
        does not advocate any mandate, the party won 51,551 votes (21 seats occupied)

        Association STO, NK
        does not advocate any mandate, the party won 9,876 votes (20 seats occupied)

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by romanr on Tuesday October 21 2014, @01:53PM

        by romanr (102) on Tuesday October 21 2014, @01:53PM (#108225)

        This isn't a bug. This is the way the local elections work. Every citizen has more than one vote and in big cities you need much more votes to get to the city council. This makes sense - if you vote in city that has 1 M citizens then the voted council will have less representatives than 1000 cities with 1000 citizens.

        • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday October 21 2014, @03:46PM

          by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Tuesday October 21 2014, @03:46PM (#108273) Homepage
          But what are the two numbers on that page which when divided give a fraction of 0.21?

          Answering my own question - nowhere; I believe that link is the wrong link, that's the national result. The real link (to the district where the pirate party polled 21%) should be to:

          http://volby.idnes.cz/komunalni-volby-2014.aspx?t=4&o=5&o2=CZ0411&o3=554642
          """
          Česká pirátská strana (21,01 % hlasů)
          neobhajuje žádný mandát, strana získala 14 862 hlasů (obsadili 5 mandátů)
          """
          --
          Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by romanr on Tuesday October 21 2014, @01:43PM

    by romanr (102) on Tuesday October 21 2014, @01:43PM (#108220)

    I'm from Czech Republic and while this might be a good news for the pirate party, it is not a big deal. They've gained 21 representatives out of 62121 which is really not much. The reason for this is, the were somewhat successful in Prague, which has around 1 M citizens. The way local elections are conducted in Czech Republic is, that every citizen has as many votes as there are representatives in the city council. So for example every Prague citizen had 65 votes. That is why they got so many "votes" but that doesn't mean many people support them. They can however to the parliament next year with 5% or so.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21 2014, @01:52PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21 2014, @01:52PM (#108224)

      So they just gained the two least significant digits.

    • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday October 21 2014, @04:39PM

      by mhajicek (51) on Tuesday October 21 2014, @04:39PM (#108292)

      So how are the robot and ninja parties doing?

      --
      The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 22 2014, @07:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 22 2014, @07:56AM (#108589)

    https://gnu.org/philosophy/pirate-party.html [gnu.org]

    I don't know whether this applies to the Czech Pirate Party.