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Icelandic Pirate Party Wins 3 seats In Parliament

Posted by samzenpus on from the scuttle-the-vote dept.

First time accepted submitter Thorhs writes "According to preliminary results (all votes counted, no official word yet) the Icelandic Pirate Party was able to secure 3 members of the national Parliament, the first PP to reach a national Parliament. Things were hairy election night, the PP lost all their MPs when they dropped below the 5% barrier 'needed' in the somewhat complex election system. Thankfully they managed to slip back up above, with 5.1% of the total votes. The old 'crash parties', the ones in charge before our epic financial crash, (Independent and Progressive parties) are the prime candidates to form a new government with just over 51% of the votes, getting 40 of 63 seats. RUV (Icelandic) has good coverage."

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  1. Re: official statement by mrclisdue · · Score: 3, Funny

    rista punktur rassinn sjóræningjar

    Google translate: slash dot butt pirates

    Certainly! You just go straight until the grey brick house, turn left, 100 metres, and it's there on your right by the maple tree.

    cheers,

  2. Re:opinber yfirlýsing by Alain+Williams · · Score: 3, Funny

    How boring, maybe you could have said: ''fyrsta færslan'' :-)

  3. Re: official statement by VortexCortex · · Score: 1, Funny

    rista punktur rassinn sjóræningjar

    Google translate: slash dot butt pirates

    Certainly! You just go straight until the grey brick house, turn left, 100 metres, and it's there on your right by the maple tree.

    cheers,

    His eyes widened as he made the sudden horrific realization, "My, what a cavernous bum you have!" said little brown posting hood...

  4. Re:A real Pirate party would not win seats by NonUniqueNickname · · Score: 5, Funny

    they would steal them!

    *sigh*

    We've been over this before... making exact replicas of PM Seats is not "stealing".