Interview with a German Pirate Living in Iceland May 23, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Interview, Pirate Party News Interview with an overseas Pirate The Icelandic Pirate Party has reached over 30% in the current polls. We spoke to Simon, a Pirate who lives and studies in Iceland, to throw some light on the background to the Icelandic success-story. Editor: Hello Simon, you are […]
Icelandic Pirates: PPIS Vote to Leave PPI and Birgitta only Politician to increase in Trust April 20, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News Following the Pirate Parties of Australia and the United Kingdom, the Pirate Party of Iceland overwhelmingly voted to leave Pirate Parties International. Arnaldur Sigurðarson, member of the Pirate executive council, told the Pirate Times that the vote was […]
Iceland Election Results A Nail-Biting Finish June 3, 2014 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Election In an election result, reminiscent of last year’s national elections, the Pirate Party of Iceland saw a new representative enter the municipal council of Reykjavik by a narrow margin. The result is more important than one might think in Iceland, since the Pirates are very good at being representatives, using […]
Icelandic Pirates Prepared to do Well in Municipal Elections May 28, 2014 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News This post is also available in: French The Pirate Party of Iceland saw three Pirates entering the Althingi (Icelandic Parliament) just over a year ago. Now they are ready to see more Pirates taking seats in regional assemblies. Voting will take place on 31st […]
Iceland’s Parliament Viewer, Keeping Track of Politicians August 22, 2013 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Topic In the run up to the national election in Iceland one of the comments about the Pirate Party was that they were keeping their electoral promises before the elections had taken place. One of the reasons for this was the development of the Online Parliament Viewer or […]
Icelandic Pirates Found a Youth Wing August 20, 2013 · by Koen De Voegt · in Pirate Party News The Icelandic Pirates are at it again. Their party was only founded officially on 24 November 2012. Less than half a year later they became the first Pirate Party to get people elected in a national parliament. Now the Pirates in Iceland are taking a new […]
Iceland Report #5: A Look Back May 5, 2013 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News The New Parliamentarians A week has passed since the elections and the first three Pirates were elected to the oldest parliament in the world.Two of them, Helgi and Jón Thór are coming to terms with their new positions and responsibilities. Not only being now a part of […]
Iceland Report #4 : History Made by a Hair’s Breadth April 28, 2013 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Election History made On Saturday 27 April 2013 Pirate history was made and three members of a national Pirate Party were elected to be representatives in their national parliament. Iceland is the first country to have Pirates having a say in the running of their country. […]
Iceland Report #3 ; Final Campaigning for a Better Iceland April 27, 2013 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Election Election Day Today, 27 April 2013, is the big day. If events go as expected then, for the first time in the short seven year history of the Pirate Movement, Pirates will be elected as representatives to a national parliament – Iceland’s. The weather today is […]
Report from Iceland #1 April 25, 2013 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Election I have arrived in Iceland and although weather-wise I am moving from a late but warming European spring – the election is hotting up in these last few days before the Icelanders head to the polling booths. I was somewhat surprised, when driving from the airport into Reykjavik, not to be greeted […]
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