<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">De:</span></b> Jens Seipenbusch <seipenbusch@web.de><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>Enviado:</span></b> viernes, 14 de noviembre, 2008 12:12:37<b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">> In fact we are quite advanced in the formal progress, so we already have officially determined the<br>> candidates of the german party<br><br>We in PIRATA prefer to wait until having collected the required amount of signatures -15.000 by law, 20.000 is our goal to manage enough margin (just in case of the National Election Board massively annuling many of them)- to summon a
National Assembly meeting to elect our candidates. We weren't able to concur to last 9-M General Election in Spain, so it would be painful for us to elect candidates only to find ourselves not having enough signatures to concur.<br><br>If we get the required signatures, we would summon the National Assembly meeting by the end of march.<br><br>> This severly challenges the calculation of 19by5 which we made in Uppsala, where i wasnt sure, if<br>> that was the fact or not<br><br>It's not the fact anymore.<br><br>Few months ago it was changed to eliminate 1 or 2 of the current 7 parliamentary groups, so formerly it was a fifth (5 out of 25) and now it's a fourth (7 out of 27) the required amount of countries where a party/party coalition must have representatives in order to create a group; also, required MPs are increased from 19 to 25. These changes were rejected by all minoritary groups (5 out of 7), <span style="font-style: italic;">only</span>
being supported by EPP-ED and PES -I say <span style="font-style: italic;">only</span> with italic as they together have the vast majority of MEPs-; thus, the changes were passed by the European Parliament.<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_election,_2009#Other_issues">Here you have some info concerning this issue</a>. Regards,<br><br><br> Carlos
Ayala<br> ( Aiarakoa )<br><br> Partido Pirata National Board's Chairman<br></div></div></div><br>
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