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Pirate Party Wins At Least One European Parliament Seat

Posted by timothy on from the replace-amateur-clowns-with-professional-clowns dept.

reeeh2000 writes "According to TorrentFreak, with half of polling stations now closed in Sweden, the Pirate Party has at least one guaranteed seat in the EU Parliament. Currently, the party is sitting with 7% of the vote. Depending on how the remaining districts voted, the Pirate Party could win another seat, for a total of two." Reader lordholm adds a link to an article about exit polls in Sweden (link in Swedish) indicating that the Pirate Party will score two seats, writing "According to the polls, the pirate party is the largest party in the 18-30 year age category of voters. The final counting of votes (including around a million postal votes) will not be done until later next week."

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  1. Fantastic! by tindur · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope they will bring up for discussion a lot of the concerns of fellow slashdotters.

  2. Re:Seems to me like people in Europe enjoy more fr by guyminuslife · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shocking! I've never heard such stunning allegations about the United States before! My good sir, who do you think you are? ;-)

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  3. Re:Bravo! by Repossessed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Something is very wrong with the Swedish political system.

    Don't they know the opposition party is supposed to claim they oppose unpopular laws like those then do nothing about them once they're voted into power.

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  4. Re:Bravo! by Hurricane78 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, ask FOX. ^^

    In other FOX news, if you disagree with them, you are a pedophile. (Think of the children! No not that way, pervert! ^^)

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  5. Hey! by siloko · · Score: 2, Funny

    people like to talk about "stupid Americans" or British.

    Im outa britern an i ain't stoopid. You Germans with your efficient cars and rather wonderful scenery. Oops, can anyone see where I went wrong!?

  6. Re:Bravo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    In fact, my 58 year old mother just called me to tell me she voted for PP (and I didn't even ask her to). I promise that she has never torrented anything in her life

    I wouldn't be so sure about that...

  7. Re:Bravo! by JohnBailey · · Score: 2, Funny

    ThePirateBay is owned by a right wing racist millionaire. You think pirateparty voters are freedom loving? ha!

    Walt Disney owns the Pirate Bay? You astound me..

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  8. Re:Bravo! by aztektum · · Score: 4, Funny

    "LOL I WANT NEW TOM CROOSE MOOVIES".

    GREAT now that is going to show up in search engines, and some studio asshole will be like "LOOK! The people want more Tom Cruise!" and we're going to get MORE shitty movies with that asshole in them! THINK before you hit the Submit button, man!

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