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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."

2 of 92 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Europe is insane by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What? Having two parties you can choose from doing exactly the same (except in equality questions) is sane????
    In what world? That's not democracy.

  2. Re:EU looses. Iceland wins. by mjwalshe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Having your econony changed to fit into the German a model isn't going to be nice just ask the Greeks and Cypriots how that is turning out for them.