Iceland’s Pirate Party Looks Set For Incredible Election Win

Matthew Hughes, The Next Web
Sun, 10/23/2016 - 4:58am

The past few months has left us – all of us – agape at the often shocking and seemingly endless election cycle in the United States. But in tiny Iceland (population 323,000) something equally interesting is happening. The Icelandic Pirate Party, once considered to be a fringe political movement, is about to score an unprecedented election win.

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