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As many of you know, the results of
the recent election were as follows:

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Hillary Clinton, democratic candidate
went allowance ??? victory

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with 52% of the overall vote.

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Jill Stein, the green candidate,
came a distant second with 19%.

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Donald J. Trump, the Republican Candidate
was caught on the hills with 14%.

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And the major of the vote was shared between abstainers and Gary Jonhson ???

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the libertarian candidate.

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(Laughter in the audience)

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What parallel Universe do you suppose I'm leaving ?

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Well, I don't live in a parallel Universe, I live in the world.

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And that, is outer world verdict.

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Let me take you back and let me explain what I wean with that.

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In June this year, I learned something called "The Global Vote".

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And the Global Vote, does exactly what he says on the teen ???

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The first time in Hystory, elects anybody, anywhere in the world,

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vote in the elections of others people's countries.

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Why would you do that?

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What's the point?

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Let me show you what it looks like.

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You go on a website, rather beautiful website, and then you select an election

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here's the bunches ?? we've already covered,

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We do about it one a month or there about it if you consider the ''' of the United States of America

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Secretary General of the United Nations, The Brexit Referendum at the end of ???

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You select the election you're interested in and you pick the candidate

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These are the candidates for the recent elections in the tiny ??? Sautomia in Principe

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under hundred of thousand inhabitants, off the coast of West Africa.

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And you can look at the brief summary of each of those Candidates which I dearly hope

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it's very neutral, very informative and very succinct.

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And when you find the one you like, you vote.

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These are the Candidates in the recent Islandic election. And That's the way it goes.

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Why not would you do want to vote in another country's election?

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The reason you wouldn't want to do it, let me reassure you is in order to interfere

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in the democratic process of another country.

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That's not the purpose at all.

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Infact, you can't because usually what I do is a re??? of results after

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the election in each individual country has already voted, so there's not way we can interfere in that process.

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But more importantly, I'm not particularly interested in the domestic issues of the individual countries,

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that's not what we are voting on.

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What Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton propose to do for the American

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is frankly non of our business.

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That's something that only American can vote on.

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Now, in the Global Vote you are considering only one aspect of it

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which is: what of those leaders are going to do for the rest of us?

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And that's very important, because we live, as lot of ????? people tell you,

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in a globalized, hyperconnected, massively interdependent world,

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where the politicol decisions of people of another countries can unwill have an impact on our lives

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no matter who we are, no matter where we live.

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like the wings of the butterfly, beating on one side of the Pacific,

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that can apparently create an hurricane on the other side. So it is with the world we are living today.

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And the world of politics.

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There's no longer divided lines between domestic and international effect.

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Any country, no matter how small, even if it's Sautoma in Principe,

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could produce the next Nelson Mandela, or the next Stalin.

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They coul pollute the atmosphere in the oceans which belongs to all of us.

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Or they could be responsible and they can help all of us.

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And yet, the system is so strange because the system hasn't caught ??? up with the globalized reality.

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Only a small number of people are allowed to vote for those leaders, even though their impact is gigantic

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and almost universal.

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What number was it? A hundred and forty million of Americans voted for the next President of The United State

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and yet, as all of us know, in a few weeks time, somebody ios going ???

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over the nuclear launch code to Donald J. Trump.

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Now if it isn't having a potential impact on all of us, I don't know what it is.

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Similarly, the election for the Referendum - the Brexit Vote

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was a small numbers of British people voted on that

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but the outcome of the vote, which every way I wend????? would have a significant impact

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on the lives of ten hundreds of millions people around the world.

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and the ????? number could vote

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What kind of democracy is that?

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Huge decisions that affects all of us being decided by relatively very small numbers of people

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and I don't know about you, but I don't think that sounds very democratic.

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So I'm trying to clear it up.

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But as I say, we don't ask about domestic questions. Infact, I only have asked two questions of all of the candidates.

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I send the same two questions every single time. I say:

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1. If you got elected, what are you going to do for the rest of us?

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For the reminder of the 7 billion who live in this planet?

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2. What is your vision for your country's future in the world?

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What role do you see it will play?

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Every candidate, I send the same questions and I ?????

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don't get me wrong, I re???? if you're standing to become the next President of the United States

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probably pretty tied ??? most of the time,

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so I'm not get together surprised that I'm ???? but many do.

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More every ntime. And somebody do much more than answer.

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Some of the most, in the most enthusiastic and ???? you could imagine,

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I just wanna say what if ????chiChimba, which was one of the candidate in the recent Zambia Presidential elections

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His answers to those two questions were basically an 18 pages dissertation

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on his view of Zambia potential role in the world, and in the international Community.

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I posted on the website so anyone could read it.

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Now sa??? onte the global vote, but he didnt't win the Zambia election

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So I found myself wondering, what am I going to do if this extraordianry group of people,

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I found some wonderful people here who want the global vote

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we always ???? are getting wrong, by the way.

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The one we elect is never the one that is elected by the domestic electorate.

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Maybe Palin because we wento see to go for the vote for women

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But I think it may also be a sign that the domestic electors still think very nationally

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they're still thinking very inwardly,

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they're still asking themselves: what's in it for me? instead what they should be asking today, which is:

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What's in it for we?

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But then you go , so suggestions plesa, not right now but send me an e-mail

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if you got an idea about we can do with this amazing team of glorious losers????

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We've gor save ???? before we should up at Thomas Tortier who was rinning

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in the Ilandic Presidential elections, many of you may have seen her

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in an amazing talk at TDE women just few weeks ago,

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when she spoke for need for women to get into politics.

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We have Maria S??? from Sautomia in Principe

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we got Hillary Clinton, she's available

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We got Jill Stein, and we aught also the elections of the nextg Secretary of the United Nations

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and we called the next Prime Minister of the New Zeeland

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a wonderful member of the team

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I think maybe those people the ????? traveled around the world whatever there's an election

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and remind people of the necessity in our modern age, of thinking a little bit outwards

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and thinking of the international consequences

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What comes next to the global vote? Obviously the Donald and Hillary show

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is a difficult one to follow but there's anothere ???election coming up

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Infact they seemed multuply, there's something going on, I'm sure you've noticed in the world

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and the next role of elections were terrificly important.

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And just a few days time we got a ???? the Australian Presidential elections

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with the prospect of nobody offer.???

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become finally described as fast ???since the Second Worlds War

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Next year we got Germany, we got France, we got Presidential election in Iran,

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and it doesn't habits

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It doesn't get less important It gets more and more important.

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Clearly, the global vote is not a stand alone project.

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It's not just there on its own.

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It has some backgrounds. It's part of the project which I've launched back in 2014

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which I called "Good Country"

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The idea of a good country is basically very simple.

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It's my simple diagnosis of what it's wrong with the world, and how we can fix it.

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What's wrong with the world I've already went into that.

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Basically we face an increasingly growing number of challenges

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gigantic, existencial global challenges - climate change, human rights abuses,

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mass migration, terrorism, economic caos, weapons proliferation

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who with these problems is ??? to praise out?

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About the very mnature of globalized problems we know individual countries

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as the capability of tackling on it on oits zone

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And so very obviously, we have to cooperate and we have to collaborate

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and as nations we're not going to solve these problems

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It's so obvious.

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And yet we don't-

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We don't do nearly after enough. Most of the time, countries still persists in behaving

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as they were worring selfish tribes.

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Fighting against each other, not as they have that since the nation stayed invented hundred of years ago.

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And this is got to change. This is not a change in politicol system or a change in ideology

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this is a change in culture

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we, all of us, have to understand, that thinking in woods is not the solution to the world's problems

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we have to learn how to cooperate and how collaborate a great deal know??

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and compete just a tiny bit less.

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Otherwise things we are carrying are getting bed, and are going to get much worse

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much sooner that we anticipate.

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this change will only happen if we ordinary people tell our polititians of things to change

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we have to tell them that the culture is changed.

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We have to tell them we have a new mandate

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The old mandate was very simple and very single.

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If you're in a posistion of power or authority you're responsible for your own people

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and your slice of theatry, and that's it.

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And in order to do the best thing for your people, you screw on everybody else on the planet

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Tha't considered to be a big Macho.

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Today, everybody in a position of power and responsibility is in the position of a dual mandate

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which says if youìre in a position of power and responsibility, you're responsible for youir own people

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and for every single man, woman, child and animal on the planet.

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You're responsible for your own slice of teatry and for every single square of ???

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and the atmosphjere above it

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and if you don't like that responsibility, you should not bwe in power.

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That, for me, is the rule of the modern age

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And that's the message thae we're going to address to our politicians

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and show them that tha's the way things are mede these days

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otherwise, we're all screwed.

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I don't have a problem actually with Donald Trump ?????? of America first

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It seems to me that this it's a pretty banale statement of what politicians have always done,

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and probably should always do.

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Of, course, they're elected to represent the interests of their own people

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but what I find so boring and so old-fashioned,

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and so unimaginative about his take on that,

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is that America first means everyone else lose.

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The making America grat again means making everybody else small again.

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And it's just no true.

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Imagine all the advisor of the last twenty years or so.

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I've seen so many hundreds of examples of policies that harmonize

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the international and the domestic needs.

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And they make better policy. I'm not asking nations to be altruistic

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or self-sacrificed. That would be ridiculous!

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No nation would ever do that.

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I'm asking to wake up and understand that we need a new form pof Government

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which is possible and which harmonize those two needs

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and it's good for our own people

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and those good for everybody else.

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Since the US elections and since Brexit,