How many seats in the European Parliament can The Pirate Party get?
In a week (June 7), elections to the European Parliament will take place. What are the preliminary layouts of the participation of the "Pirate Party" in this election?Elections to the European Parliament are held every 5 years in all EU countries. From 2009 to 2014 there will be 736 delegates in the European Parliament. Sweden will be represented in the European Parliament by 18 delegates, and in order to get into parliament, the party will have to get a little more than 5 percent of the total number of votes. The figure shows the preliminary layouts as of May 27. The simplest arithmetic calculations will get the number of percent that you need to collect the party (at the moment) to get 2 votes out of 18 - about 10.3%. Which, given the increase in the share of The Pirate Party by only 0.3% over the previous week, makes her chances of getting more than one seat in the European Parliament unlikely. But for the remaining time, of course, anything can happen, and we only have to wait a week.
This is not the first time that the “Pirate Party” has participated in the elections to the European Parliament; in 2006, it managed to gain only 0.63% of the vote in Sweden. After the events of this year, the number of party members rose to 46,000. The party program includes the following items: free file sharing between Internet users, reducing the cost of licensed disks, eliminating patent rights, and banning DRM systems.