[x-pubpol] Pirate Party wins 3 seats in Icelandic parliament

[Joly MacFie]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/pirate-party-wins-3-seats-in-icelandic-parliament-for-its-best-result-worldwide/

On Saturday, Iceland held national parliamentary
elections<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22320282> and
the newly-formed Pirate Party of Iceland <http://pirateparty.is/> won 5.1
percent of the vote. This earned the party three seats in parliament,
making<http://www.newsoficeland.com/home/politics/parliamentministries/item/1253-icelandic-pirate-party-voted-into-parliament-get-3-mps>
the
new *Píratar* the most
successful<http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130428/pirate-party-sails-icelandic-parliament>
Pirate
Party in any national legislative body around the globe.

Iceland’s unicameral parliament, known in Icelandic as the *Alþing*
(“All-thing”),
has just 63 members to represent the country’s 320,000 people.

By comparison, the Czech Republic has one Pirate
Party<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pirate_Parties>
parliamentarian,
Germany has 45 state-level Pirate lawmakers (plus, recent party
struggles<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/pirate-party-falling-out-of-favor-across-germany/>),
and Sweden has two
representatives<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/06/swedish-pirate-party-headed-to-european-parliament/>
of
its Pirate Party in the European
Parliament<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/proposed-eu-data-protection-reform-could-start-a-trade-war-us-official-says/>.
As is the case anywhere Pirates hold elective office, the group still
represents a tiny minority in Iceland—most of the seats in the *Alþing* will
go to the center-rightIndependence
Party<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Party_%28Iceland%29>
.


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