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by FrankenTan 5383 days ago
With the Swedish pirate party, this is a choice of strategy. They purposefully focus their politics and votes with whoever votes with them, as it usually is with coalitions between political parties.

They did exactly what they promised once they got into the EU parliament, which actually suprised the Swedish newspapers who accused them of 'not taking it seriously' when they focused entirely on their area of expertise rather than pay lip service to other issues.

It's how they become the greenest party in the green coalition, despite not being a green party.

It was a nice change to experience someone doing exactly what they said they would once they'd been voted in.