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The Swiss Pirate Party Has Its First Mayor

Posted by timothy on from the mayor-mc-swiss-cheese dept.

bs0d3 writes "Alex Arnold from the Pirate Party Switzerland has been elected mayor of Eichberg. This is the first mayoral win for the pirates in Switzerland, and hopefully just the begining of things to come. Thomas Bruderer, president of the Pirate Party Switzerland, is delighted: 'This result is for our young party is an important milestone. To win a majority vote shows that our members are not just a marginal phenomenon; but are in the midst of society.'"

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  1. Arrr! by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Funny

    For some reason, the mayor insists on the town hall employees calling him "cap'n".

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    1. Re:Arrr! by Kjella · · Score: 4, Funny

      How pirates ended up in a country with no sea? How did they commute?

      They airlift them in with a swarm of talking parrots, you can often see the foreman sitting on the captain's shoulder negotiating for more crackers or threatening to blabber about the treasure. The colors are actually for navigation, red parrots on the left, green parrots on the right and white parrots on the tail. One crazy captain called the Flying Dutchman even airlifted his whole ship this way, but he got lost in the Swiss alps somewhere and the parrots froze to death in the winter. Who knows, maybe the descendants of the crew still live up there continuing their pirating ways...

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  2. Time for a navy by Teun · · Score: 4, Funny

    Poor Swiss, now they have pirates but no navy...

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    1. Re:Time for a navy by TheP4st · · Score: 4, Interesting

      They actually do have a navy which patrols 4-5 of their lakes.

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  3. A bit premature. by DerekLyons · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "To win a majority vote shows that our members are not just a marginal phenomenon; but are in the midst of society.'"

    Without knowing the politics of the town, that's a bit of a premature boast. Dark horse and odd ball candidates routinely win against major candidates in local elections when the major candidates have pissed off the electorate or run a seriously lackluster campaigns. The real test of entering the mainstream is either the candidate or party getting re-elected or gaining additional offices or municipalities.

    After all, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

    Another key question, what is the demographics of the town? If they skew young and lower income (not poor, but cube monkeys) or have a major geek influence (like say, Silicon Valley), that's another potential indicator that the boast is hollow and premature.