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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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday October 27 2016, @06:44PM
No, it took 50-some-odd years. The GOP made a conscious decision to become the party of people who spell "black folks" with two Gs in it...well, maybe not "spell" given who we're talking about here, but you get the idea.
Drumpf here differs from the rest of the GOP mainly in that he says in plain speech what the rest of them disguise in several layers of euphemism. On the one hand, this rattles the establishment, but on the other hand it rallies the part of the base that hates the establishment. End result: GOP constituency is neatly bisected, and with any luck the two factions will eat each other alive over the next 4 years.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @07:17PM
The GOP made a conscious decision to become the party of people who spell "black folks" with two Gs in it...
So it's a party catering to inner-city Blacks or Afro-Americans?
(Score: 2) by dry on Friday October 28 2016, @01:18AM
You know, I can call my buddy an asshole or cunt, with a smile on my face, when he does something stupid and he laughs. If I call a stranger an asshole or cunt, it is considered quite insulting.
(Score: 2) by pnkwarhall on Thursday October 27 2016, @11:53PM
Drumpf
o_O
Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven