[pp.int.general] Fwd: 18 new MEPs to arrive next month

[mattias.bjarnemalm at piratpartiet.se]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:55:27 +0100, David Arcos <david.arcos at gmail.com>
wrote:
 
> Wrong!
> UPyD is a right-wing, nationalist party. That's nod bad *per se*, the
bad
> thing is that they are ultra-populist: they will tell whatever the
people
> wants to hear. And they lie a lot (they said they were left-wing,
> non-nationalistic), they have contradictions in their own program, etc.
> In some parts of Spain, they are accepted and voted. In Barcelona, well,
> they got less than half the votes we got.
> 
> So please don't try to combine with them, or it'll be PIRATA.CAT who
will
> be ostracized and ridiculized :-p

Well, you can only know so much about the political landscape in other
countries I suppose.

But perhaps I should have added that in the case of Pirate parties in the
European parliament trying to find fringe parties to form a group with this
should never be done without consulting the local pirate parties from the
countries of origin of the parties we consider aligning with.

/mab