Swedish Pirate Party enters EU parliament as voter turnout rise:)

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I'm a lazy pirate so I'm just going to steal reproduce the entire AFP news blurb here.

Swedish Pirate Party enters EU parliament
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STOCKHOLM (AFP) ? A Swedish party that wants to legalise Internet filesharing and beef up web privacy scored a big victory Sunday by winning a European parliament seat, results showed.The Pirate Party won 7.1 percent of votes, taking one of Sweden's 18 seats in the European parliament, with ballots in 5,659 constituencies out of 5,664 counted.
"Privacy issues and civil liberties are important to people and they demonstrated that clearly when they voted today," one of the party's candidates, Anna Troberg, told Swedish television on Sunday.​
The party was founded in January 2006 and quickly attracted members angered by controversial laws adopted in Sweden that criminalised filesharing and authorised monitoring of emails. Its membership shot up after a Stockholm court on April 17 sentenced four Swedes to a year in jail for running one of the world's biggest filesharing sites, The Pirate Bay.

Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's conservative Moderates won 18.8 percent of votes and four seats, close to its score in the European election in 2004 but down sharply from the 26.1 percent it won in Sweden's 2006 general election. Coming little more than a year ahead of Sweden's next general election in September 2010, political analyst Mats Knutson called the result a "formidable cold shower" for Reinfeldt, speaking on public television SVT.

The opposition Social Democrats, traditionally Sweden's biggest party, won 24.6 percent, also close to their result in 2004 and maintaining their five seats in the EU parliament.

The Greens scored a strong rise in support, and were credited with 10.8 percent of votes compared to 6.0 percent in 2004 and doubled their seats to two. The formerly communist Left party saw its support drop from 12.8 percent in 2004 to 5.6 percent and one seat, a drop of one.

The far-right Sweden Democrats, which are not represented in Sweden's parliament, meanwhile tripled their score but not enough to win a seat in parliament. Their support rose from 1.1 percent in 2004 -- and 2.9 percent in the 2006 general election -- to 3.3 percent.

Voter turnout in Sweden was 43.7 percent, higher than the 37.1 percent in the 2004 election, election officials said.

In your face, IPRED-imposing goverment! Or pwned maybe one should say :lol:
I'm pretty pleased with the elections, voter turnout is up, far right extremists have been supressed, civil liberties party is in and my party scored a slight increase from last election. :)
 
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I'm well pleased with this! In the UK the far-right BNP won 2 seats which was depressing, this just gives me a bit of hope!
 
I'm pretty pleased with the elections, voter turnout is up, far right extremists have been supressed, civil liberties party is in and my party scored a slight increase from last election. :)

Sadly the opposite is true, in every case, in the UK. Except for the turnout bit - I don't know if it is higher than last time or not but I bet it's abysmal.

Hooray for the pirate party getting in. Weren't they predicted to get more than 7 percent though? I remember reading they were (amazingly) the 3rd biggest party there.
 
Hooray for the pirate party getting in. Weren't they predicted to get more than 7 percent though? I remember reading they were (amazingly) the 3rd biggest party there.

They are the 3rd biggest in membership numbers (about 46000 iirc) but the polls saw them at 5-8%.
 
I thought they already had someone in the parliament

Thats at least what the head of the pirate party said when he spoke at stanford...but I may not remember it correctly.
 
I actually voted for the German subsidiary of that party :)
 
I know I'll be voting for them once they establish a subsidiary here. Meanwhile, I'm just waiting for my right to vote (which will come in about 3 and a half weeks...)
 
Hehe I saw that now, someone objected to my use of their our bandwidth. :D
 
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