The Pirate Party are poised to form Iceland's government in Saturday's election
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1ZF08)
Last April, the Icelandic government nearly toppled when Parliament was dissolved, after the Panama Papers revealed that Prime Minister Sigmundur Davii Gunnlaugsson was laundering money with Mossack Fonseca -- only fear of the popular groundswell for the Pirate Party drove the establishment to keep the government limping along -- until now. (more")