The party is also clearly counting on getting as much exposure for the ad campaign through today's news conference as from the ads themselves.

Each party is already counting on raising at least $100 million in soft money for issue advertisements for 2000.

By 1948, the party counted half a million members, just behind the Communist Party.

Neither party is counting on the presidential campaign to win it seats.

For the time being, the governing party is counting on market forces.

He said the party was counting on a strong showing in Athens and other large cities where the returns were coming in slowly.

Each party has its own parliamentary group and counts as a separate party in official issues.

The party was first registered in 2003, but counts its history starting October 2004.

Each major party can count on additional votes from sympathetic parties.

Where that is not, both parties count two and two and make a problem after a while.