<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>Hi</div><div><br></div><div>I totally disagree with you.</div><div><br></div><div>1. After a chaotic year, a small progression of 0.2 point is not bad at all.</div><div><br></div><div>2. There are almost 1 milion people that chose the pirate party. Please find another country that does so.</div><div><br></div><div>3. The number of 1st vote went from 46.000 to 960.000. This is huge. It means germans didnt vote only for the pirate party but also for the people. It shows more connections with the citizens.</div><div><br></div><div>http://www.wahlrecht.de/news/2013/bundestagswahl-2013.html#absolut</div><div><br></div><div>Dont expect to take the world in one election..</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Alexis Roussel / President Pirate Party Switzerland <br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: "peter.boehm" <peter.boehm@bremen.piratenpartei.de> <br>Date: <br>To: pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net <br>Subject: [pp.int.general] germany election <br> <br><br>hi,<br><br>just my two cents.<br><br>cent one:<br><br>we had federal elections here in germany yesterday, and recieved 'only' <br>2.2 percent. that was more than last time, back in 2009.<br><br>last elections were quite chaotic, this one was far better organised, <br>but we still failed.<br><br>we had a wide program concerning many topics, but the program was set in <br>spring. this brought no attention from the media in the last weeks.<br>we had some successes in last years, entering some states parliaments, <br>and the pirates there are doing good work - but this was no issue in <br>media, because shortly after the rise in polls there came some quarrels. <br>personal issues, differences in opinions, also some histories from some <br>pirates who held elected positions came up in the media.<br><br>in the last month we release many statements concerning the global <br>spying from the us secret agencies, but this topic was to complicated <br>for most journalists and politicians.<br>our beloved chancelor merkel ignored it, following in the steps of <br>helmut kohl by doing nothing and keeping calm.<br><br>the other opposition parties made a show, the head of the <br>socialdemocrats showed a f..kfinger, one head of the greenparty hat some <br>historic issue. then there is a new populistic anti-EURO-party, which <br>took some media attention very easy.<br><br>so.. we did our best, but the mainstream did not notice. we have a <br>stable base of supporter through the whole society, but we will stay out <br>of the federal parliament for at least the next four years.<br><br>this was the one cent, the other cent i'd like to mention:<br><br>the german pirates tried to build a complete program covering all issues <br>and problems. the program is really good, not biased by interest groups, <br>but it is not perfect.<br>what i personaly miss are some of the old 'core'-issues, back then the <br>pirate party germany was foundet to<br>-reform copyright and patents rights<br>-enhance privacy for citizen<br>-make the government more transparent<br><br>the german pirates - today - have no agenda concerning patent rights, <br>this is a to complicated topic to talk about.<br>and transparency of governments is far away, now as the secret agencies <br>have a carde blanche to do what they want.<br><br>my best wishes go to pirate party austria (election on saturday),<br>greetings,<br>peter<br>____________________________________________________<br>Pirate Parties International - General Talk<br>pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net<br>http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general<br></body>