The past few months has left us – all of us – agape at the often shocking and seemingly endless election cycle in the United States. But in tiny Iceland (population 323,000) something equally interesting is happening. The Icelandic Pirate Party, once considered to be a fringe political movement, is about to score an unprecedented election win. Current polls suggest that it will sweep up around 20 percent of the vote. As a result, it’s highly probable that it’ll increase its share of seats in the Althing and take part in the next Icelandic government as a coalition partner to one of the other parties. The…
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