Article 1DTKQ Iceland's Pirate Party to receive millions in election funding

Iceland's Pirate Party to receive millions in election funding

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Cory Doctorow
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Iceland's elections are publicly funded, with funds awarded based on polls of the electorate; the Pirates have consistently polled higher than any other party, and the incumbent coalition (whose parties are polling in the single digits) has been scrambling to avoid a general election after the Panama Papers revealed that he had secret offshore accounts that benefited from his bailout of Iceland's planet-destroying banks. (more")

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