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Czech Pirate Party's Leader, Zdeněk Hřib, Will Be Mayor of Prague for the Next Four Years

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday October 30 2018, @11:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the jolly-roger dept.

canopic jug writes:

The Czech capital will be led by a 'Pirate' mayor for the next four years. The three coalition partners responsible for choosing the mayor have agreed that Prague's new mayor will be Zdeněk Hřib, who is 37 years old and current leader of the Czech pirate party. One of the first goals will be to focus on ridding the city of its dependence on a limited amount of IT suppliers, hopefully leading to lowered expenses and greater efficiency. Another goal is to facilitate digitization of some currently paper-based government services. The party has also been aiming at fighting corruption, reforming tax regulations, and overhauling the country's copyright legislation.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @09:37AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @09:37AM (#755959)

    so the system that makes it easier to keep 2 parties in place is not the real problem?

    Dream on.

    Yes, I agree it is not he only problem, but it sure helps.

  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday November 01 2018, @12:39AM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday November 01 2018, @12:39AM (#756264)

    so the system that makes it easier to keep 2 parties in place is not the real problem?

    First past the post voting is the worst possible way to find the will of the people, if that's your goal, but in the US' money and gerrymandering are much bigger problems.

    The fact is, you have two state sanctioned political parties. It's no different to the way the old communist bloc countries used to ban all political parties, except in the US you're absolutely free to form as many parties as you want. They will just be ignored until they go away.

    That's one of the ways your overlords rule you.