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- Outsiders may regard the idea of a government run by Pirates as a joke. But “the voters think a joke is better than what we have now,” said Benedikt Jóhannesson, leader of another insurgent party that is even younger than the Pirates and has also earned substantial support.
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Interesting story. In text format: Icelandic constitutional reform, 2010–13 The assembly elected to rework the constitution included a farmer and two mathematicians. They were thwarted, in part, on technicalities about cardboard and the thickness of paper. The proposal includes language "obliging the state to provide internet access to all citizens" despite Iceland already being an internet powerhouse.