On April 27, Iceland held parliamentary elections, and six parties are now represented in the body. That includes 3 members of the Pirate Party. See this wikipedia article, and this news story. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the news.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
It was the relative Democracy in the Germanic tribes that wiped out the EVIL Roman Empire in 476 A.D.
The Iceland regime was one result.
Will the Pirate folks wear Skull and Crossbones T-shirts when they go to the Iceland Parliament ???
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Abolish ALL timebomb *parliamentary* regimes — max. separation of powers.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
Difficult especially for the many morons in Europe with parliamentary system madness — regardless of the Hitler EVIL in 1933-1945.
What!!! Those poor Iceland Voters. They must have been so confused with all those parties on the ballot.
I wish we were that democratic here in America…
Now that I’ve read the article, I think Birgitta Jónsdóttir was on Democracy Now a few months or so ago. In addition to talking about her role in Wikileaks, I believe she also was talking about forming a Pirate Party in Iceland then. Quite remarkable to have succeeded so quickly. Maybe she could give the Green and Libertarian Parties some ideas, assuming our election system isn’t too undemocratic for any of her ideas to work.
Iceland, like the vast majority of nations in western and central Europe, has proportional representation, so new parties can frequently win some seats in their very first election.
For any clueless folks —
Simple P.R. = Total Votes / Total Seats = Ratio/Quota to get ONE legislator.
Too difficult for 5 of 9 SCOTUS math genius folks to understand ???
From wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_parliamentary_election,_2013
“The final deadline for parties to apply for participation in the parliamentary election was 9 April 2013. To be approved for a list letter to participate in the election, new parties were required to submit a minimum of 300 signatures from supporters in each constituency where they intended to list. The participating parties also needed to submit a valid candidate list to the election committee in each of the constituencies where they intended to run, comprising twice as many candidate names as the number of available seats in the constituency, before 12 April.[20] On April 16 the National Election Committee (Icelandic: Landskjörstjórn) published its list of 15 approved parties with 72 candidate lists, as 11 parties had opted to run in all six constituencies, while 2 parties opted only to run in two constituencies, and the final 2 parties were only present in one constituency.”
Further: “According to the Icelandic constitution and election law, independent candidates are not allowed to run in parliamentary elections, unless they manage to join forces with other independent candidates to establish a full complete candidate list for a new group named “independent candidates” in the constituency they intend to run.”