Opinion Poll says Iceland’s Pirate Party will win, Iceland’s national elections 2016 latest Opinion Exit poll, Pirate Party, Independence Party, Birgitta Jónsdóttir
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Opinion Poll says Iceland’s Pirate Party will win, Iceland’s national elections 2016 latest Opinion Exit poll, Pirate Party, Independence Party, Birgitta Jónsdóttir

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Opinion Poll says Iceland’s Pirate Party will win, Iceland’s national elections 2016 latest Opinion Exit poll, Pirate Party, Independence Party, Birgitta Jónsdóttir

Iceland’s national elections take place on Saturday, and at present, a radical fringe party could be heading for the win.

One in five Icelanders favor the Pirate Party, according to an online opinion poll run by the Social Science Research Institute at the University of Iceland, the Iceland Monitor reports.

That figure puts the party in first place with 22.6 percent of the votes – 1.5 percent ahead of the center-right Independence Party, which is currently in power. Those numbers would give each of the two parties 15 MPs in the 63-seat parliament.

 

Iceland’s Pirate Party is part of a global political movement that first began in Sweden in 2006 to bring about digital-copyright reform. According to the Post, the party’s political leanings are neither right nor left and policy is vague, focusing on direct democracy, civil rights, transparency and public access to information.

In 2013, three members of Iceland’s Pirate Party were elected to parliament — making Iceland the only country in the world to have members of the Pirate movement in government.

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