Sweden's "pirate party" miserably failed in parliamentary elections


    In the elections to the Riksdag (national parliament) of Sweden that ended yesterday, the so-called "Pirate Party" (Piratepartiet) did not pass the 4% electoral threshold and will not get into parliament.
    The current roll-call count of the remaining votes will show absolute values, but Piratepartiet currently has 0.71% of all the votes counted, and bypasses such parties as the Feminist Initiative (0.55%) and the Swedish Party of Pensioners ( 0.22%).

    Sweden's "pirate party" was known to hitto one of the 18 seats allocated to Sweden in the European Parliament in 2009 and offered to host the Pirate Bay server in her office in the parliament building. The current electoral failure clearly demonstrates the party’s inability to attract attention and interest voters.
    Alas, the organization of flash mobs and scandalous popularity is not all that is required of a political party (at least outside of Russia), and over the past few years, as the election results show, they have not been able to formulate a political credo or demonstrate clearly their viability is not PR actions, but real deeds.

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