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Pirate Bay Co-founder Peter Sunde Running For European Parliament
An anonymous reader writes "Peter Sunde aka brokep of TPB fame is going to run for European Parliament in 2014, as a Finnish Pirate Party candidate. As he still has a prison sentence to serve in Sweden, he might have to campaign from behind bars. 'Amusingly, the Pirate ticket in Finland could have been even bigger than it is now. Sunde informs TorrentFreak that he also reached out to Finnish-born Kim Dotcom to join the race, but the Megaupload founder currently has other priorities.'"
I don't understand, we in America have a functioning democracy and consequently all of the elected officials play on the same team.
How could anyone exhibiting defiance run for office? I am confused.
Kim Dotcom is not finnish born, he's born in Germany.
to a finnish mother. wikipedia lists him having finnish nationality due to the biggest newspaper in Finland reporting it. doesn't matter that much if he was born on finnish soil or not.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Do you understand how most parliamentary governments work? Parties dedicated to individual themes come together and form larger coalitions. Unlike in countries with a two-party system, parties aren't under pressure to be all things to all people.
The Greens are usually seen as a natural partner for The Pirate Party in any coalition.
Everyone wants a one trick pony, because they steal votes from the major parties, forcing them to pay attention to the issues the one trick pony campaigns for.