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    In Germany, you can try to persuade the organizations that local
    council supervenes to use open software, open document standards and
    to publish data so that citizens can access it through the internet.
    Furthermore, you can try to further increase involvement of citizens
    in local decision making through small polls and such. No idea how
    similar Spain is to Germany in that regard, however.<br>
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    -J<br>
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    On 23.05.11 04:42, Brendan Molloy wrote:
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      type="cite">Yes, well done indeed.<br>
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      What does a local election entail though? In Australia, it's
      basically managing rates, roads and rubbish :P.<br>
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      <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Stephane
        Bakhos <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="mailto:nuitari@pirateparty.ca">nuitari@pirateparty.ca</a>></span>
        wrote:<br>
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          padding-left: 1ex;">Congrats from Canada!<br>
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          On Mon, 23 May 2011, lilo wrote:<br>
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            Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 01:48:23 +0200<br>
            From: lilo <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:al3lilo@autistici.org" target="_blank">al3lilo@autistici.org</a>><br>
            Reply-To: Pirate Parties International -- General Talk
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            Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] Spanish elections
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              On 23/05/2011 01:18, David Arcos wrote:<br>
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                Yay! And not one, but two!<br>
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              omg... LOL<br>
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                Pirates de Catalunya got 2 elected members in the local
                elections:<br>
                - Manoli Martin, in Sant Fruitos de Bages<br>
                - Alex Madrid, in Santa Coloma de Gramenet<br>
                The other results (Barcelona, Lleida, Tarragona, Mollet,
                l'Hospitalet, Reus<br>
                and Mataró) are quite good, between 0.80 and 1.20, we
                multiplied x3/x4 the<br>
                votes since last time!<br>
                <br>
                Partido Pirata got nice results too, being their first
                time:<br>
                - 0.3% in Madrid<br>
                - 0.3% in Granada<br>
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                Tomorrow we'll provide more details!!<br>
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                Thanks for the support!!! :)<br>
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              great day! thank you ESPANA & PIRATES :D<br>
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                On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Richard Suchenwirth
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                wrote:<br>
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                Just for the record: Elected today<br>
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                Manoli Martin Rey, candidata independiente de la
                plataforma ciudadana<br>
                Imagina´t de Sant-Fruitos, primera concejal PIRATA de la
                historia.<br>
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      Regards,<br>
      Brendan Molloy<br>
      Pirate Party Australia<br>
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      M: +61 434 069 776<br>
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