The party of pirates could soon be ruling in Iceland.

The party’s members, according to the Washington Post, are a collection of “anarchists, hackers, libertarians and Web geeks” who want to see the country set policy via online polling. Party leaders have also offered citizenship to Edward Snowden if he can get to Iceland and want to make the country a “digital safe haven” like Switzerland, but details on the latter aren’t precisely clear.

Voters in Iceland head to the polls on Saturday and the radical fringe party founded in 2012 could come away victorious. More than one in five voters — 22.6 percent — said they intend to vote for the Pirate Party in the country’s national elections, according to an online poll taken last week by the Social Science Research Institute at the University of Iceland.

The Iceland Monitor reports that figure sets the party on course to become the “world’s first ‘pirate’ movement to win national general elections,” putting it just ahead of the incumbent center-right Independence Party at 21.1 percent. If those results taken from Oct. 14-19 hold up, each party would get 15 seats in Iceland’s 63-seat national parliament, the newspaper reports.

The Pirate Party received just 5.1 percent of the vote in 2013 but made history with three members being elected to parliament, making Iceland the only country in the world with Pirate Party members in government.

The party’s founder — a Web programmer and former WikiLeaks activist — has defined the movement as a “message of hope” that combines the best of both conservative and liberal ideals.

“Individuals can and should change the world,” Birgitta Jonsdottir, 49, told the Washington Post. “It is a people’s movement, ordinary people being able to go into Parliament to change laws that will actually give the other people more power. It’s a message of hope.”

Jonsdottir told the newspaper there’s “no way” she could have predicted her party ruling Iceland just years after its launch.

Smari McCarthy, a spokesman for the Pirate Party, told Bloomberg last week that the movement wants to work with other parties willing to take on “systemic changes” it thinks are important, such as a new constitution or decriminalization of drugs.

The roots of the movement can be traced to the 2008 global financial crisis, which led to the collapse of Iceland’s three main banks and widespread reform. The wave of anti-establishment fervor got another significant jolt in April when the country’s former prime minister, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, resigned after the Panama Papers revealed he and his wife had offshore holdings in the British Virgin Islands.

Gunnlaugsson became the highest-profile political casualty of the leak and prompted government officials to call a snap election six months early. Gunnlaugsson’s party, according to the University of Iceland’s poll, is currently in third place at 9.1 percent, or 13 percentage points behind the Pirate Party.

Eirikur Bergmann, a political science professor at Iceland’s Bifrost University, told Bloomberg that the rise of the Pirates, as well as another offshoot of the Independence Party, has made predicting Saturday’s outcome difficult even for seasoned political analysts.

“Although the economy has recovered well since 2008, there’s still a lot of disbelief in politicians in Iceland, which makes it harder to say how things will turn out,” Bergmann told Bloomberg.

Another professor told the Washington Post that the Pirates have captured Iceland’s growing sense of cynicism.

“The distrust that had long been germinating had now exploded,” said Ragnheithur Kristjansdottir, a political history professor at the University of Iceland. “The Pirates are riding that wave. We’ve had new parties before, and then they’ve faded. What’s surprising is that they’re maintaining their momentum.”

Voters in Iceland will decide this weekend just how far that momentum will go and if Jonsdottir is right, the Pirates could be a sign of even larger transformations to come.

“People want real changes and they understand that we have to change the systems, we have to modernize how we make laws,” Jonsdottir told the Washington Post.