Dog Elected Mayor of Small Swedish Town

The small Swedish village of Svappavaara – so small that it doesn’t even have a high-res satellite image on Google Maps – has elected its first puppy mayor. In a close election, the pup named Miss Britney Houston, defeated the incumbent, Nils Engström, by 3 votes. The dog overwhelming captured the village’s youth vote, winning about 95% of support from the town’s 82 residents under 35 years old. 

Many expressed joy at the dog’s election to the town’s highest political post. 

“Britney ran a clean campaign around the issues,” said Karina Holmberg, an elementary school teacher who moved to Svappavaara from Stockholm last year. “Her slate of progressive ideas will move us forward.”

Others were less enthused by the result, however.

“This just goes to show that it’s too easy to get on the ballot,” said town elder Lasse Söderström. “I mean, a dog! Can you imagine it? It’s a mockery of demcracy. What’s next? A goat? A falcon with a hat?”

Holmberg admitted it will take some time to bring the town together. “There will need to be some healing after such a close election, certainly,” she said.

Houston assumes office in December.

Via missbritneyhouston.