[pp.int.general] Election results local election in Lower Saxony (PPDE)

[Francisco George]

This is what I posted on Google + and tweeted

https://plus.google.com/u/0/104837838509452334713/posts/QdRHa1A7Wq5

http://twitter.com/paco229/statuses/113233273165070336

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>   1. Re: Election results local election in Lower      Saxony (PPDE)
>      (Erik L?nroth)
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> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:27:34 +0200
> From: Erik L?nroth <erik.lonroth at gmail.com>
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> This is such an inspiration to us all!
>
> /Erik - Sweden, S?dert?lje
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> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Justus R?meth <roemeth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello All
> > There were local elections in the cities and towns of the German federal
> > state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) on Sunday, and the pirate parties
> of
> > the respective towns and cities took part in them. Overall, it seems that
> > more than 50 mandates were won, and the results of the federal elections
> of
> > 2 years ago were surpassed in some places, which is awesome given a lower
> > number of voters (real numbers, not percentages).
> > One should keep in mind that Lower Saxony is one of the less densely
> > populated states of Germany, making these successes even more
> astonishing.
> > Most of the result is probably thanks to the local pirates in the
> respective
> > local elections, so those are the ones that deserve most of the praise.
> > This is important for the future in two ways:
> > Next week we have elections in Berlin, both local and on state-level
> (since
> > Berlin is a so called Stadtstaat, or citystate). The PP Berlin was at
> 6.5%
> > at the last poll, which would actually put them way above the 5%
> threshold
> > into the Berlinian parliament. The successes from Lower Saxony are very
> > likely to give them another boost.
> > More importantly, however, these results put the Piratenpartei
> Niedersachsen
> > and the Piratenpartei Deutschland on the map, into the minds of the local
> > citizens both during the election campaign and hopefully also during work
> in
> > the local council during the legislative period. It should also further
> > boost morale for the Pirates in Germany and elsewhere, as it shows that
> we
> > can gain enough support to gather legislative representation (even at a
> time
> > when the pirate bay is not in the news, and even for political bodies
> that
> > seem quite removed from the places where the big questions that we, in
> the
> > end, all hope to influence, are decided), that (our) hard work pays off
> and
> > that there is progress within the maturing process of the movement.
> > Kind regards from Hanover
> > Justus R?meth
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