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Mela Eckenfels

WXEL: German "pirates" gunning for seat in Berlin (2011-09-13) - 0 views

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    BERLIN (Reuters) - Among the posters plastered around Berlin ahead of a regional vote on Sunday, the bright colors, unconventional photography and thought-provoking slogans of the Pirate Party stand well out from the pack. "We have the questions, you have the answers," reads one, and "The Internet in the hands of the users" another, reflecting the party's grass-roots, populist agenda. Dismissed by many as too kooky to take seriously, the Pirates for the first time have a chance of winning a seat in a state parliament -- the party is polling ahead of the Free Democrats (FDP), the junior coalition partners in Chancellor Angela Merkel's federal coalition, at around the 5 percent threshold for entering the assembly. First-time voter Ruben Doehrer, 18, is among those who say they will flock to the Pirate Party on September 18.
Mela Eckenfels

Le Figaro - High-Tech : Le Parti pirate français rêve d'un destin à l'allemande - 0 views

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    À Berlin, ce mouvement de défense des libertés a capté 8,9% des voix ce week-end et fera son entrée au parlement régional. En France, il tente de se mettre en ordre de bataille pour s'immiscer dans l'élection législative de 2012. C'est la sensation politique du moment. En Allemagne, le Parti pirate, un mouvement jusqu'alors confidentiel, a attiré sur son nom 8,9% des suffrages dimanche lors d'un scrutin régional à Berlin. Avec quinze députés au parlement, le «Piratenpartei» devient la quatrième force de la capitale allemande, devançant très largement les libéraux du FDP (1,8% des voix), alliés de coalition d'Angela Merkel. «C'est un vote contestataire à prendre au sérieux», a réagi la chancelière allemande.
Mela Eckenfels

Nordic bloc politics - the solution for a fractured left? | Jon Worth - 0 views

  • Conversely in Germany – at the 2009 Bundestagswahl (my blog on that here), and at every Landtagswahl subsequently, the problem of how the SPD deals with the Left Party (Die Linke) rumbles on. Equally the SPD also still flirts with the idea of forming a grand coalition with the CDU, while support for The Greens continues to grow. Meanwhile in Berlin, the entry into the state parliament of the Pirate Party with 8.8% of the vote complicates matters still further.
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