[pp.int.general] Upcoming elections in Germany

[Justus Römeth]

I have very mixed feelings about this as well. It either means I will
finish my thesis quickly or very very late oO.

The best commercial for the pirates of NRW and S-H would of course be
making it into the Saarland parliament, and you guys do more to reach that
goal than I ever could, so I know, and thanks!

Well:

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On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Jerry Weyer <weyerjerry at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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