In recent election results in the Netherlands a party by the name of Partij voor de Dieren (Party for the Animals) managed to gain 1.8% of the vote, and soon will have two seats in Parliament, the NY Times reports. Since its founding in 2002, the party has rapidly gained popularity, and is now making history as the first party (in the world) to campaign for animal rights as an official part of government!

Their website reads: “The party was founded to promote an awareness of the way in which humans treat animals and to emphasize that this needs to change – in the interest of not only the animals themselves, but also humans and the environment in which we all live.”

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