Pirate Party to Dominate Iceland Parliament, Survey Finds

[Independent voter]

Arrrrgh, matey!

What a crazy season it is for politics.

So the PM of Iceland promised the voters he would clean up all this off shore secret banking, everyone in Iceland would pay a fair share for their amazing social benefits package.

By now everyone knows it was discovered in the Panama Papers that the PM was stowing money away himself.

A recent poll shows the Pirate Party is likely to win the election, get a majority or what ever a parliament form of government does to win.

Some are saying they will invite Snowden to live in Iceland.

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-part...-finds-160314/

Against what some believed were insurmountable odds, Pirates were even able to put their representatives into the European Parliament, where German politician Julia Reda has been a Member since 2014.

While local variants continue to ebb and flow elsewhere, over in Iceland there’s an intriguing situation playing out which has seen the Pirates transform from fresh-faced upstart to political powerhouse.

In 2013 (and after just a few months of existence) the Icelandic Pirate Party picked up a notable 5.1% of the vote, meaning that the party entered the national government with three Members of Parliament. But now, just three years later, a dramatic situation is playing out.

According to the results of a new poll published Friday, the Icelandic Pirate Party now appears to count on the support of a staggering 38.1% of the population. To put that into perspective, that means that if elections were held today, the party would leap from the three seats it currently holds to a massive 26 seats.

While all survey results should be received with caution, if these figures can be maintained it means that the Pirates would oust the incumbents to become the most significant player in the country’s parliament.

The survey, carried out by 365 Media, found that The Independence Party is roughly maintaining the 27.6% of the vote it achieved in the 2013 elections. However, The Progressives have dropped from 24.4% to 12.8%.

If that prediction plays out the two parties combined would plummet from the 38 seats they currently hold to just 27, meaning that if people went to the polls today the parties would lose their parliamentary majority.

In fact, as the Grapevine frames it, not only are the Pirates now the country’s largest political party, but no two-party ruling coalition could be formed in Iceland without including the Pirates.

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I wouldn't trust pirates with booty.

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Now get google fiber and off I go!

[Revi]

Iceland is really cool when it comes to all things politics.

- It's a tiny, yet very modern country
- They have a huge voter turnout
- They're not afraid to new things, instead of looking to other countries.
- They have a high political interest in the population.

Makes for very quick and sometimes surprisingly bold changes.

[satimy]

You can do whatever you want when you're small and are essentially racially and religiously homogenous

[Independent voter]

Looks like their Prime Minister resigned.

http://grapevine.is/news/2016/04/05/...ister-resigns/