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I've just heard that Sweden's Pirate party has got 2 seats.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 03:57:07 PM EST
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Yay!!!

The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buitler
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 04:02:13 PM EST
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Preliminary results:

Social Dems:   27,3 +1,0
Moderates:     16,4 +0,6
Peoples Party: 11,9 +3,9
Greens:         9,9 +4,2
Pirate Party:   7,1 +7,1
Center Party:   6,7 -1,3
Christian Dem:  4,9 -1,0
Left:           5,9 -7,0
June List       3,8 -10,0
Swedish Dems:   3,9 +2,5
Feminist Init.: 1,9 +1,9

Voting percentage sharply up, 6,2 percent higher, from 35% in 2004 to 41,2%.

by Trond Ove on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 04:20:59 PM EST
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Pirate Party Wins and Enters The European Parliament | TorrentFreak
The Pirate Party has won a huge victory in the Swedish elections and is marching on to Brussels. After months of campaigning against well established parties, the Pirate Party has gathered enough votes to be guaranteed a seat in the European Parliament.


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by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 04:46:50 PM EST
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The Pirate Party got 19% of the under 30 vote, according to the Sveriges Radio.
by Trond Ove on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 04:58:47 PM EST
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Well it looked that way at first, but turned into 1 + 1 shadow member. But there where no sour faces at the party, we toasted in rum and celebrated the result!

Yarr!

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 06:41:45 PM EST
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If your MEP uses their media visibility wisely the party can only grow in Swedish elections.

The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buitler
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 06:44:19 PM EST
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Definitly so.

With 200 000 votes this time around, getting over 250 000 for national parliament elections in 2010 should be very possible.

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Mon Jun 8th, 2009 at 05:16:58 AM EST
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