"Pirate Party" approves the number one in Iceland, what is going on?

In the Internet world, those who do not comply with the copyright law are called "Pirate". However, under the principle that "the current copyright law in the world does not correspond to the substance of the Internet society, it is necessary to make a major revision", people and groups conducting piracy act as conviction criminals, among them "political parties" Building a public organization called "Pirate party"is. The support to the Pirate Party, which carries out international activities, is gradually expanding, and the possibility of leaping to the position of the second party in Iceland is rising.

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In Iceland in the parliamentary election held in April 2013, the Iceland Pirate Party won three seats. Iceland has adopted a single house system called "Alþing" meaning "all", and the constant has 63 seats in all. As a result, the Icelandic Pirate Party, which gained 3 seats, became an unquestionable party to represent about 5% of the Icelandic citizens of about 320,000. The Iceland Pirate Party was only six months from the party at this point.

About two years after that, according to the latest survey of Icelandic research company MMR, the Iceland pirate party's support rate rose to 23.9%. The Icelandic pirate party, which was only a weak party until two years ago, finally jumped to a political party with the highest support rate. In addition, MMR expects that the Icelandic Pirate Party could jump into the second party in the next parliamentary election held in 2017.


Representative Birgitta Youngsdottir who joined the Iceland Pirate Party said about high support, "We need to humbly accept this result as well.This result is a mistrust of politics which is supposed to be old It is accepting that it reflects it.The people are thrilled that the traditional political parties are not making progress any more.The people are seeking change. "


Exposed the information gathering activities by NSA and was pursued AmericaEdward SnowdenInitially, he wanted an asylum to Iceland. However, the Icelandic government acknowledged the existence of informal contacts, but in fact it has virtually refused the asylum request if it has not received a formal request. If the Icelandic Pirate Party has greatly increased the number of seats in the next election,There is a possibility that Mr. Snowden will be granted citizenship of IcelandThere is also a view pointed out.

At the time of article creation, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland were the countries that issued elected officials in some public elections such as national elections and local elections as a pirate party.