The Pirates, who seek direct democracy and digital freedom, came third in Iceland’s Oct. 29 election.
No party won an outright majority, and President Gudni Johannesson asked the first-placed Independence Party and then the second-placed Left-Greens to try to assemble a coalition. Both failed.
On Friday, Johannesson said he has asked senior Pirate lawmaker Birgitta Jonsdottir to try to assemble a government with other parties.
The Pirate Party, founded by an assortment of hackers, political activists and internet freedom advocates, has 10 seats in Iceland’s 63-seat Parliament.
October’s election was called amid public anger at the prime minister’s offshore holdings, which were revealed in the Panama Papers leak.
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