BERLIN ELECTION
he Pirate Party, a young movement that advocates direct democracy on the Internet, created a sensation Sunday, September 18 by obtaining 8.9% of the vote in elections in Berlin, which guarantees them to enter for the first time in a regional parliament in Germany.
The party won 15 seats in Parliament and in Berlin.
A victory "when the German Pirate Party has no employees," said Sebastien Nerz, chairman of the party at Torrent Freak. "We will show that it is possible to inform the public openly and honestly about what is going on, what are the alternatives and why a certain path was chosen. We will demonstrate that citizens can be included in the choices" , says he.
The scores for the election of Berlin (CD - TorrentFreak)
"A genuine participatory democracy"
Interviewed by "Le Nouvel Observateur", the President of French Pirate Party, Maxime Roquet, "welcomes the German pirates for this great victory that rewards their work after a campaign with a very small budget - 40,000 euros."
"Germany is one of the most advanced countries vis--vis the Pirate Party, with the exception of Sweden, which has two MEPs," said he. "In Germany, the Pirate Party is the sixth power of the country and has over 10,000 members." Founded in September 2006, the German Pirate Party has more than 50 elected offices throughout Germany.
Maxime Rouquet recalls the "three major axes of the Pirate Party": "defending the rights and freedoms of citizens, free access to knowledge and culture (promoting sharing), and the fight against the system of monopolies (including by challenging the patents). All in a citizen, a genuine participatory democracy, "he says.
"Great election year"
The German Pirate Party therefore reaches the fifth position of the regional election which guarantees the Social Democrats of Berlin and keep up the coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel even more weakened, his liberal allies have been almost wiped off the map.
The mayor and chief of the regional government outgoing Social Democrat Klaus Wowereit, business for ten years, is guaranteed a third term. His Social Democratic Party (SPD, federal opposition) came in first with 28.3% of the vote, according to provisional official results.
At the end of this "super election year" marked by seven regional elections, the record of Christian Democrats of Chancellor is disastrous, mid-term. The CDU have registered only one success in Saxony-Anhalt, one of the poorest regions of the former GDR.
Boris Manenti with AFP - Le Nouvel Observateur
he Pirate Party, a young movement that advocates direct democracy on the Internet, created a sensation Sunday, September 18 by obtaining 8.9% of the vote in elections in Berlin, which guarantees them to enter for the first time in a regional parliament in Germany.
The party won 15 seats in Parliament and in Berlin.
A victory "when the German Pirate Party has no employees," said Sebastien Nerz, chairman of the party at Torrent Freak. "We will show that it is possible to inform the public openly and honestly about what is going on, what are the alternatives and why a certain path was chosen. We will demonstrate that citizens can be included in the choices" , says he.
The scores for the election of Berlin (CD - TorrentFreak)
"A genuine participatory democracy"
Interviewed by "Le Nouvel Observateur", the President of French Pirate Party, Maxime Roquet, "welcomes the German pirates for this great victory that rewards their work after a campaign with a very small budget - 40,000 euros."
"Germany is one of the most advanced countries vis--vis the Pirate Party, with the exception of Sweden, which has two MEPs," said he. "In Germany, the Pirate Party is the sixth power of the country and has over 10,000 members." Founded in September 2006, the German Pirate Party has more than 50 elected offices throughout Germany.
Maxime Rouquet recalls the "three major axes of the Pirate Party": "defending the rights and freedoms of citizens, free access to knowledge and culture (promoting sharing), and the fight against the system of monopolies (including by challenging the patents). All in a citizen, a genuine participatory democracy, "he says.
"Great election year"
The German Pirate Party therefore reaches the fifth position of the regional election which guarantees the Social Democrats of Berlin and keep up the coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel even more weakened, his liberal allies have been almost wiped off the map.
The mayor and chief of the regional government outgoing Social Democrat Klaus Wowereit, business for ten years, is guaranteed a third term. His Social Democratic Party (SPD, federal opposition) came in first with 28.3% of the vote, according to provisional official results.
At the end of this "super election year" marked by seven regional elections, the record of Christian Democrats of Chancellor is disastrous, mid-term. The CDU have registered only one success in Saxony-Anhalt, one of the poorest regions of the former GDR.
Boris Manenti with AFP - Le Nouvel Observateur