1.8.2006
Pirate Party now larger than Greens in Sweden
With its 7633 members Pirate Party (Piratpartiet) is now clearly larger than the Green Party (Miljöpartiet) with its 7249 members. Actually Pirate Party had reached the Greens already a few weeks ago but the earlier publicly announced member count of the Greens included people who had stopped paying their membership fees, and now these people have been cleaned away from the register.
This is by no means an insignificant political achievement. The Greens have 17 seats in the Swedish parliament and together with Social Democrats and Left Party they form the ruling coalition in Sweden. Without Greens the government would lose its majority in the parliament where seats are split to seven different parties. And this is precisely the sort of situation the Pirates are trying to achieve in the September 17 election: to get a balance of power position from where they can trade their support to any potential coalition that is willing to realize their agenda.
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