[pp.int.general] Upcoming elections in Germany

[Jerry Weyer]

I don't know if I should say "I'm sorry" or "Congratulations", but count on
our help! :)

Kind regards,

Jerry

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Justus Römeth <roemeth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just a short FIY:
>
> It looks like the state parliament of North-Rhine-Westfalia is dissolving
> itself, meaning there will be elections there within the next 60 days.
>
> NRW is Germany's most populous state with 17 million inhabitants (more
> than the Netherlands(!)). It is a mix of urban places like Cologne, Bonn,
> Düsseldorf, and the formerly industrious Ruhr area (Dortmund, Essen,
> Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, and Duisburg) along with some more rural areas with
> some student and other midsized towns like Münster, Bielefeld, Paderborn,
> Siegen, and Aix-la-chapelle. PPDE was polling at around 5-9% recently, so
> there is a good chance of us making it above the 5% threshold.
>
> This year was supposed to be pretty slow as far as elections were
> concerned, with only the elections in the relatively small states Saarland
> and Schleswig-Holstein coming up. Well, we were already pretty mobilized
> and ready to help the pirates there, since both states are rather rural,
> which makes the pirates few and far apart, but now it would be of utmost
> importance to make it into the NRW parliament, and we do have good chances
> of accomplishing that. This means that help from the surrounding countries
> (France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands) is very welcome to reach
> that goal, of course. Since it is almost at the same time as the
> Schleswig-Holstein election, it will likely cost us some helpers there, so
> if pirates from Denmark (or Sweden on their way to buy cheap beer) can help
> out there, too, it would be grand.
>
> I think if we make it into the NRW parliament that would be a bigger event
> than the Berlin election last year (whereas Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein
> would have been about the same size, maybe a bit smaller). Our chances for
> a lot of publicity there are good, and, just like Berlin, this would be at
> the very least Europe-wide. So see if you can spare a weekend or two until
> the elections are happening to help the pirates in NRW if you live closeby.
>
> -J
>
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