Iceland

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 wasa2il and not just pushing a party line. They expected more seats but as Helgi told us in our last article about these elections: the Pirate demographic overlaps, to some extent, with the non-voter demographic. The Pirates contested seats in three other areas of Iceland: …

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. It was a nail biting finish as the voting results changed through the night and the Icelandic Pirates swung from initial ecstasy to despair and disbelief and then to consternation as the numbers we being reported differently by the two main news outlets MBL and RÚV. …

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 overcast and raining with an expected highest temperature of 8° C. Hopefully this will not deter the young Pirate demographic from going out to vote. Final Campaigning Actions and a Visit to an Icelandic Banana Plantation Smári on radio CC BY-SA Pirate Times The last …

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 with a forest of posters and placards. In fact they seem to be as rare as trees are in the beautiful barren landscape that surround the capital city.  Talking to the Pirates in the room they rented as a campaign headquarters, I found out that …