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posted by janrinok on Wednesday October 05 2016, @11:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the shiver-me-voters dept.

A party that hangs a skull-and-crossbones flag at its HQ, and promises to clean up corruption, grant asylum to Edward Snowden and accept the bitcoin virtual currency, could be on course to form the next Icelandic government.

The Pirate Party has found a formula that has eluded many anti-establishment groups across Europe. It has tempered polarising policies like looser copyright enforcement rules and drug decriminalisation with pledges of economic stability that have won confidence among voters.

This has allowed it to ride a wave of public anger at perceived corruption among the political elite - the biggest election issue in a country where a 2008 banking collapse hit thousands of savers and government figures have been mired in an offshore tax furore following the Panama Papers leaks.

The left-leaning party is part of a global anti-establishment typified by Britain's vote to leave the European Union. But their platform is far removed from the anti-immigration policies of the UK Independence Party, France's National Front and Germany's AfD, or the anti-austerity of Greece's Syriza.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-iceland-election-idUKKCN11Z1RV


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @03:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @03:25PM (#410642)

    First, they'd have to find someone as hot as Áslaug Sigurbjörnsdóttir to lead them...

    This is a photo that came up when I searched for Áslaug Sigurbjörnsdóttir [www.dv.is]

    Not really my type, but go for it. I don't judge.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by GlennC on Wednesday October 05 2016, @03:54PM

    by GlennC (3656) on Wednesday October 05 2016, @03:54PM (#410661)

    I don't know where you found that, but when I searched I found an intelligent, articulate and lovely young lady.

    http://www.aslaugarna.is/english/ [aslaugarna.is]

    Of course, in proper Icelandic no man would ever have a surname that ended in 'dottir', as that means 'daughter'.

    --
    Sorry folks...the world is bigger and more varied than you want it to be. Deal with it.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @11:35PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @11:35PM (#410875)

      I don't know where you found that, but when I searched I found an intelligent, articulate and lovely young lady.

      http://www.aslaugarna.is/english/ [aslaugarna.is]

      Of course, in proper Icelandic no man would ever have a surname that ended in 'dottir', as that means 'daughter'.

      Same AC here. Note that I said:

      This is a photo that came up when I searched for Áslaug Sigurbjörnsdóttir [www.dv.is]

      I actually had to look for quite a while until I found something 'appropriate'. I'm glad my efforts weren't wasted.

      Likewise, this is a photo [flickr.com] [possibly NSFW] I found when I searched for Barnaby Jones [duckduckgo.com].