[pp.int.general] The conference - what went wrong; how can we do better?

[Nicolas Sahlqvist]

Yes, it is not in PPI's interest to split up the PP's into smaller parts
that will be unable to accomplish there goals, that is not in the PP's or
PPI's interest.


- Nicolas


On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Justus Ršoemeth <squig at dfpx.de> wrote:

> If I understood it correctly it depends:
>
> If two parties within a country can't agree on who will get the voting
> power both of them can join the PPI, but none of them as ordinary member (ie
> no voting power).
>
> But I guess that only applies if both parties are about equally strong. If
> someone were to found a second national party in Germany it doesn't seem a
> good idea to take the German parties ordinary membership away because of
> that (13000+ members et all).
>
> On 22.04.10 17:21, Fedor Khod'kov wrote:
>
>> Alexander Bock<lists at alexander-bock.eu>  writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Am 22.04.2010 um 15:39 schrieb Gregory Engels:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 21.04.2010, at 19:51, Alex wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> i agree. 1 vote per country makes no sense. and it also implies no
>>>>> flexibility whatsoever.
>>>>> what if 1 country has more than 1 party?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> in the current statutes there can be only one Ordinary Member
>>>> per country, and if there are more than one party in a country,
>>>> they can form a federation and join together. They still will be
>>>> sharing a single vote.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I, too, don't see how this is a problem. To me this all seems very
>>> similar to the UN.
>>>
>>>
>> In the UN, each country is represented by their (supposedly) legitimate
>> government.  Is there any way to determine who is legitimate
>> representative of some country's pirates if different parties from this
>> country fail to form a federation?  Or the country will be represented
>> by party who has the right to represent their country and vote simply
>> because they were first to claim a place in PPI?
>>
>>
>
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