It looks like the internet archive is needed assistance, I just heard about this today and figured lemmy could help spread this message around

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
    8·
    6 months ago

    Does voting for a party like that even help anything? I’m asking because my voting experience is US, and everyone knows how many parties matter here. So I’m curious.

    • viking@infosec.pub
      10·
      6 months ago

      It does a bit, since every party will be represented in the European council based on the number of votes they have. It’s not an election where the winner takes all.

      I think the pirates had one or two representatives in the council, which is enough to start debates and make proposals. They obviously can’t push anything through by themselves.

    • IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      7·
      6 months ago

      Yes. In most European countries even small parties can get seats. In my country there are 8 parties in parliament, for example, and 2 of them didn’t use to be there 2 election cycles ago (they were too small/new 8 years ago but eventually grew in popularity and got enough votes for representation).

      Of course if they only have 1 or 2 members in parliament they typcily tend to form coalitions with other like-minded parties so they can get more voting power.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
        2·
        6 months ago

        I wonder how many people that aren’t from the US running around telling people to vote third party their are, because of what you just described.