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Preparing for power: Can Iceland's Pirate Party change system from the inside?

Consistently topping the polls ahead of upcoming elections, Iceland's Pirate Party have a real shot at power. If they do, they want to change the "ugly" culture of politics and create a society that honours people.

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Birgitta Jonsdottir. Credit: Flickr/Florian Apel-Soetebeer/Government 2.0 Netzwerk Deutschland. Some rights reserved.
Birgitta Jonsdottir. Credit: Flickr/Florian Apel-Soetebeer/Government 2.0 Netzwerk Deutschland. Some rights reserved.

Birgitta Jonsdottir. Credit: Flickr/Florian Apel-Soetebeer/Government 2.0 Netzwerk Deutschland. Some rights reserved.

Birgitta Jónsdóttir is the key figure in Iceland’s post-crash political renaissance — first as an organiser of anti-government protests and finally as one of the Pirate Party’s MPs for the last seven years.