[pp.int.general] Upcoming elections in Germany

[Daniel Riaño]

2012/3/14 Justus Römeth <squig at dfpx.de>

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

Tough decission. Best of luck whichever side the dice falls upon!


>
> 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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>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jerry Weyer
>>
>> http://jay.lu/
>> @jerryweyer <https://twitter.com/#%21/jerryweyer>
>>
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