Iceland Pirate Party in Unprecedented Rise to Power

by DC Editors - March 16, 2015

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Rising to second largest national party in recent poll, the Iceland Pirate Party is to make waves

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According to a new poll conducted by Iceland’s largest newspaper, Fréttablaðið, if elections were held today, the Pirate Party would become the second largest in the Alþingi, the country’s parliament, with 14 seats. Píratar, as it is called, is an offshoot of Sweden’s Pirate Party, or Piratpartiet, founded in 2006 by Richard Falkvinge, who opposed what…

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