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Voters Growing Disillusioned with Germany's Pirate Party
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| Last Edited | RP Oct 28, 2012 12:05pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Der Spiegel |
| News Date | Thursday, October 25, 2012 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | As national elections approach next year, Germany's Pirate Party can't explain what its positions really are. Its representatives in state parliaments prefer to focus on technical issues and themselves, while party leaders are withdrawing from the forefront. Voters, in the meantime, are turning away from the party.
stories about the Pirate Party's political director Johannes Ponader were once again splashed all over the German press, after a talk show appearance in which he had his feet massaged, threw his arms around the show's host and explained his polyamorous lifestyle, meaning that he engages in multiple relationships at once.
The Pirate Party was triumphant in Berlin state elections a little over a year ago, emerging as a protest movement against the establishment, promising transparency instead of backroom politics. This spring the party was polling at 13 percent. Since then, though, it seems voters have come to recognize that the Pirate Party often offers little more than a spectacle.
Julia Schramm, another prominent party member in Berlin, likewise plans not to participate in the next election. Schramm angered many members of her party when her publisher took action against people downloading pirated copies of a book she had written -- which goes against the Pirate Party's anti-copyright stance. |
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