victory. what will it mean for the count ? ., ., ., , country? hello from right outside athens, the country? hello from right outside athens, the centre-right - country? hello from right outside athens, the centre-right new. athens, the centre right new democracy party is leading with 40.5% of the vote and is projected to win enough parliamentary seats to form a government, according to these official results. so the party needs at least 151 seats in a 300 seat parliament, now they are projected to win 157 seat parliament, now they are projected to win157 seats, so the prime minister who has been prime minister since 2019 until the last inclusive elections, he had promised to boost revenue from tourism and to create newjobs and increase the salaries and wages to an average thatis salaries and wages to an average that is closer to the european union, so now what is expected is that they will probably form a government of the coming few days. under this new electorate system,
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to be broken. as awful as that is, we have to asks ask, what was it about us in 2016, our electorate system, our inequality, the way we deal with the internet, our lack of local journalism, what allowed this to happen in the first place, and can we then fix that, regardless of which party we like, this kind of thing doesn t ever happen again. as far as how we ve done in the medium term, i think the journalists we have left have done an excellent job. the terrifying thing is to imagine what if this happened in five or ten years when we have no journalists left? whose work is denied or repeatedly or fictionalized. we have a few left. they are the heroes of this story now, in russia, and in ukraine. the other thing is that this is fundamentally all about the rule of law. do we believe in the rule of law? the rule of law comes before a democracy, before everything else. is this man above the law or
candidates, and many candidates have a record number in terms of fund-raising but also a number of people, new contributors, contributing to their campaigns. harris: xochitl, how do ideas like growing the supreme court to maybe 15 justices and lowering the voting age to 16 years old and tampering with other things within the electorate system, how does that appeal to people? is that some of the meat that is being thrown out, as we call it? red meat for the base to give people more enthusiastic among those 2020 democratic candidates? i think it s going to be a long primary process and i think the primary process itself is a way to discuss those issues. i think you are seeing town halls all across the country, and the candidates crisscrossed in country talking about the issues that voters care about. we are having 12 debates. that s a lot of debates. that s a good thing. we are going to discuss all of these issues. we are going to discuss their plans for the economy, how to