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posted by janrinok on Thursday October 27 2016, @06:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the they-had-a-dream dept.

The Pirate Party looks set for a successful outing in the coming weekend's Icelandic elections.

A poll by local newspaper Morgunblaðið and the Icelandic Social Science Research Institute of the University of Iceland reports support for the Pirate Party is running at about 22.6 per cent, a point-and-a-half ahead of the ruling Independence Party and four points clear of the Left-Greens. That's impressive support, although the party's support has fallen a couple of points since March 2015.

Iceland uses s proportional representation system so the party's current level of support will likely translate into about 15 seats in the 63-member Althingi.

That won't be not enough for Píratar, the party's Icelandic name, to take government. It's also ruled out a coalition with the Independence Party.

But earlier this year Independence split and the recently-formed splinter group Viðreisn (tr. "Regeneration") is polling at 8.8 per cent and has ruled out joining a government with any of the current coalition parties. If the Pirates can align with Viðreisn and other like-minded parties it may therefore become part of a governing coalition and win some ministries.

Four years for a party founded by geeks to take over the government is not bad.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @02:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @02:43PM (#419424)

    Nice to see the Icelandic Pirates so successful. What about the other European Pirate Parties? How is the Swedish party doing? The movement started there. In Germany though, the Pirate Party has been mired with controversy, from a public debate when it was found out that a party leader was on the dole instead of looking for a real job, to recently when a showman state delegate from Berlin with an unclear past killed his boyfriend before committing suicide.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @07:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @07:20PM (#419539)

    German party is probably a bandwagon off-shoot that has a lot of hanger-ons that are trying to make their lives relevant.

    Regardless, I hope the Pirate Party fares well, they are what Occupy movement would be if it had any direction or goal in mind.