[pp.int.general] 1st pirate in government !

[peter.boehm]

congrats, yea!

this is a coalition for one of the bigger towns in bavaria/germany, 
about 150k to 180k inhabitants (afaik). (according to wikipedia 9th 
biggest town in bavaria, 56th biggest town in germany).

about german political coalitions:
the coalition signs a coalition treaty, and then it rules the town. this 
works quite well here in germany, as the case of absolute majority 
(>50%) is quite rare. germany itself is now ruled by a coaltion between 
christdemocrates and socialdemocrats.
quite seldom there is a minority government, where the ruling 
coaltion/party is tolerated by other parties.

contrary to berlin and other towns, where pirates also have seats in the 
town-/country-/state-/whatever- parliament, this is the first time, when 
the pirates are official member of the ruling coaltion in germany.

go tina go!

arrr, peter

On 05/03/2014 10:36 PM, seykron wrote:
> Congratulations!
>
> Is it a political coalition or is it just created for elections? Do
> political coalitions work fine in Germany?, in Argentina political
> coalitions could never build a common political project and they
> usually quickly gets disintegrated.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Matías
>
>
> On Fri, 02 May 2014 14:51:13 +0200
> <hyazinthe at emailn.de> wrote:
>
>> In the german town Regensburg, all parties of the town parliament
>> except the CSU (conservatives) build a coalition, just to put the CSU
>> in opposition; the CSU never was in opposition before. Concretely the
>> coalition consists of SPD (socialdemocrates), Grüne (Green Party),
>> Freie Wähler (liberals), FDP (neo-liberals) und Pirate @twena aka
>> Tina Lorenz.
>>
>> source:
>> http://www.mittelbayerische.de/region/regensburg/artikel/wolbergs-schickt-csu-in-die-opposition/1055802/wolbergs-schickt-csu-in-die-opposition.html
>> - https://twitter.com/rowe316/status/462197830472720384
>>
>> Tina entered parliament in the town hall elections in Regensburg,
>> which took place on the 16th March 2014:
>> -
>> http://www.regensburg.de/wahl/ergebnisse/362000_000829/0003620000000_PIRATEN.html
>> -
>> http://www.regensburg.de/wahl/ergebnisse/362000_000829/0003620000000.html
>>
>> Ain't that funny ? I'm tellin' ya...
>>
>>
>> Greetings,
>> / aka Oliver
>>
>>
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