[pp.int.general] Spain just got 4 elected pirate councillors

[Dario Castañé]

For instance, I was elected as list leader of a "confluència" with 1.058
votes (6,39%).

This list was backed by Barcelona en Comú (what it was a bit of a
surprise given we had problems with them in Barcelona capital) but it is
clearly 99% pirate: participation, transparency and the commons were our
main “weapons” in debates and in our discourse. It is only missing the
pirate label, although local media call me “the pirate”.

I was voted as head of Decidim Igualada (We Decide Igualada) in open
primaries with 50% of the votes. It was a very short vote (four days
because our confluence process started too late) so the turnout was
kinda small (83 pax). Anyway, Igualada is a small town (less than 35k
people) and the participation was four times bigger than our usual
active group (~20 pax).

If you want more details, just ask :) It is a good experience. Now we
are working on our stable organization as a truly horizontal grassroots
collective, mixing offline and online participation methods and tools.
As much pirate as it can be!

Salut,
Dario

El 27/05/2015 a las 9:31, Antonio Garcia escribió:
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> ]>> How many of them were in a pirate list?<<
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> ]I'm afraid the answer is not binnary, it depends on what you mean by
> "pirate list". There were four types of candidatures ]and to me they
> are all quite pirate. I describe them here in detail so you can decide
> for yourself which ones fit your ]definition.  :)
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> That in turn depends on what you consider a "pirate" ;). But I guess
> the REAL question was under which form you got the three remaining
> elected. None of them under a real "Pirate" list, I'm afraid.
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> You catalans spead "being pirate" very thinly, just as we never have
> seen a show of "pirate force" from your supposedly +1.000 members.
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