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Title    Iceland's Pirate Party Tops Polls Ahead of National Elections
Date    Thursday October 27 2016, @06:55AM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the they-had-a-dream dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/10/26/0715255

Phoenix666 writes:

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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  1. "Phoenix666" - https://soylentnews.org/~Phoenix666/
  2. "The Pirate Party looks set for a successful outing in the coming weekend's Icelandic elections" - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/25/pirate_party_iceland/
  3. "the party's support has fallen a couple of points since March 2015" - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/20/pirate_party_leads_icelandic_voting_intentions_poll/
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=16602

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