[pp.int.general] Upcoming elections in Germany

[Justus Römeth]

So we got 7.4% in Saarland tonight. Wohoo!
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landtagswahl_im_Saarland_2012

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Daniel Riaño <danielrr2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
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>>>
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