we were able to make show about it doesn't become a problem. in guinea, ebola haunts than thousands died here between 20142016. while authorities have been commended for red casing. the virus quickly, there are still 12 more grace and the community of quick a shallot bellis al jazeera. ah. a check of the headlines on al jazeera, armenians a voting type. snap election to coal parish. indian resigned and triggered the vote, hoping to renew his mandate after last year's defeated. the conflict with neighboring as a by john bori challenge reports now from the out of ever wins. this election will have to tackle a long list of problems that armenia faces. you have a traumatized nation after that. defeated in the war. you have a polarized electorate. this has been a pretty bruising election campaign. you have refugee problems,

you have prisoner of war problems. you have economic problems and development problems, etc. getting round to even 10 percent of these is going to be a big ask for anyone who wins this election. supporters of iran, new president of celebrate his, his victory and to run the hard line or if to him racy, was declared the winner on saturday. in an election marked by voter apathy and economic hardship that been processed across brazil, which is recorded more than 500000 cove at 19 deaths. as a 3rd wave hits demonstrators say the president gyal scenario is responsible because he continues to play down down break. the u. s. is tripling the number of vaccines that it's sending to tie one more than 2 and a half 1000000 doses of mcdonough should arrive on sunday. the western nation signal support to taiwan in the face of pressure from china, which claims, self governing taiwan is its territory. well, our,

we meanwhile has run out of vaccines. a big un shipment is delayed because of india's decision to suspend vaccine exports. nearly 400000 people have received the 1st shot, but the very few 2nd doses. 3 children are among 4 people, shot and wounded at a birthday party in canada, the youngest, just a year old. they've been taken to a hospital in toronto, one of the children is said to be in a life threatening condition. police are looking for several suspects. and supporters of both approved political rivals have been out in huge numbers as tensions rise or this month's contested election. socialist contender, federal castillo, who narrowly leads the official count as claimed victory. but right when canada keiko footboard says that there's been fraud at a seeking to get votes, an old, there's been no evidence of this. and those were headlines that he's continues here on al jazeera, after inside story. coming up next on the coast,

china aged population, the country will become the 1st nation in history. the goal for become switched to the finance industry isn't living up to this own bring credential, legal traffic jams. so people turning to the waterways come to the course on. i'll just say for 1st they love the color car box as a by john now armine as lead as a struggling, the survival of people goes to polls in early general election. so how will love to will shape the vote and come the outcome and the political crisis in armenia is inside story. ah, ah, welcome to inside story with me. the whole rahman, on sunday armenians will vote in a 2nd parliamentary snap election in less than 3 years. for political blocks and 22

parties, the gang up against caretaker prime minister, nicole pushing young who stepped down in april, following months of protests demanding his resignation. money call him a traitor for signing a p. steal that ended 6 weeks of fighting in the corner, car bar, but return swathes of territory to armine as long standing rival as the by john for former leaders are running in sunday voting, leading of robert hardy. and who's seen as an opposition from trying to really challenge reports from younger than of what's being described as the most competitive elections. and i mean, is modern history. this election should not be happening for another 2 years. and there's only one reason why it is, and that is, armine is devastating defeat last year in a conflict with as a by john, i had it, i turkey over the disputed region of going back to prime minister nicole passion and thought that the way out of the infusing political crisis was to call early

elections. there are a dizzying array of candidates, some 26 different parties and blocks. but basically it boils down to a 2 horse right between virginia and his main rival, the former president, robert cherry. and now you might think that any prime minister who lost such a devastating and humiliating war would be political history. and the polls are tight, almost neck and neck. but most of the people that we've been speaking to here, the analysts are expecting nicole passion the end to win. now karen is trying to rally and galvanize the mc pasheti and vote. but regardless of who, when the election, the challenges that face the victor are daunting, there is a traumatized nation. there is economics, various development, there is security. yes. and election might solve some of these issues, but it's certainly going to be no kind of. well, let's take

a look at recent key developments in the lead up to the election. last november, a russian broker, sci fi, and the 6 we conflict between as airy and ethnic armenian falls is in the enclave of nicole cordova, that you're locked into rhetorical games for as a by john. in january, russian president vladimir putin hosted the 1st post war talks between the leaders as a by john and armenia. analysts say russia's peacekeepers thought it a strong military presence from turkey. the banks as a by john and in april armenian prime minister nichol passion, young step down over criticism of his handling of the conflict. he said he wants to return power to the people, so they can decide the government's future through free and fair elections. last week, back a 100 over 15 prisoners of war and exchange for a map, detailing the location of land mines in the region, seated by armenia. but tensions remain in the color, canada with sporadic fighting between as a bi johnny and armenian troops. the,

let's bring in august for this edition of inside story from yerevan had been you can, who's an election systems consultant for transparency, international or media. and from moscow, vladimir said it call a political scientist at the russian academy of sciences. an author has not yet is an our media analyst and former advisor to the armenian prime minister, nicole pushing the i'm thank you gentlemen, for joining us on this edition of inside story heard the man, who can i come to you 1st? how much of the selection is about the aftermath of the recent conflict with as the by john, and how much is it about the issues of the economy, education, and health care? i should say it's all about the aftermath of the conflict with as you be, john. so after the cease fire agreement was signed on the night of november 9th immediate report test and even that night, in fact,

there were some instances of violence with government buildings being broken into. and those protests continue to afterwards for several months. and really the trigger was an announcement in march or started in late february where senior military officials had joined cause for the resignation of the prime minister. and so this early election, so this is ahead of the normal 5 year term for our army as parliamentary elections . and the reason this early election was called was basically to get a new mandate for the new called passion on civil contract party government. and so we'll find out tomorrow if it will be in the we will find that out, but you know, we can, it will go into all of the symbol detail. i mean, in terms of the lead up to the war was the satisfaction, in your opinion, mr. man, you know that mr. passion, he was doing a good job or was the always discontent. since the start and continuation of the

velvet revolution, i would say leading up almost to the very end of the war, there was wide satisfaction with the results of the revolution. it was wide satisfaction with anti corruption reforms that had been taking place. there was an electoral reform process with which i was personally involved for the last 2 years . and really it was, it was the result of this war that kind of broke the back of that process and had it done in washington dc. your man very close to the prime minister as he, as he sits for the time being as the, the standing until the elections are concluded. what you generally pression of the situation of the country up to this particular point and mister passion, the ends not just behavior, but his record up to now from bringing the people with him to now having a large majority of them. not so supportive. thank you. thank you for having me on

insight story before i get to the question which relate to our previous speaker, i would actually like to disagree with your heart on whether there was a wide satisfaction. i mean, we're all part of the society old. so, and we've been following how slowly reel fundamental reforms were taking place or need no reforms were taking place in this more didn't necessarily have to do with the political will. i believe that the pre, the passion administration did have the political will. but the reality on no serious area like the judiciary reform, like the bedding of the judges, like many other areas of the security forces, police and other areas we haven't seen actually much of the reform. and that actually created a lot of the, i would say a police discontent. discontent might be a strong ward, but a lot of concerns among especially civil society players,

especially those who have been very active in pushing forward the reform agenda. did several factors, definitely play dean and both internal and external. a lot of the problems with the fake news, the media not that are owned by a lot of the previous regions, but also or larger players, both regional and global. we not much engagement with people or groups that might be and the forefront of the reform agenda from the outside players. and of course democracy spoilers that have been pretty much a sport trying to, i would say disqualified the results or the very the very fact of the revolution of 2018 if it was a quarter to 100. if i missed and i missed it before, you know, because i'm trying to expand the conversation if there was not much discontent, was that just another reason for the way you say other groups such as the military

civil service? we were not very happy with the way the government were performing and this was an underbelly, a chance for outside forces to do what they did not. i would still agree with that . the. the reason why these selections are happening is really the war, the devastating reward that we had last year. the aggression by their budget and turkey with the mysteries fighting against army has been kara, and this was definitely the largest. i mean, one thing we have to realize is that the car conflict as much as we want to talk about it or not has been instrumental in shaping up the new identity of currently armenia. and i think the realization of how important it is to address car about conflict in order to be able to move forward. i don't think was fully relied but, but the military and the behavior by different government agencies was not directly linked to watch the passions ministration was doing. it was of course, also the result of the war,

but also issues with regard to governance. a promise that was given in 2018 government governance in general as an institutional approach. and as the reform agenda that i don't believe has been really addressed properly. okay. not to be suddenly caught in moscow. i think analyst not just in moscow, but globally would be very interested in what's going on in the courses right now. how is moscow in terms of viewing what's going on right now? reacting maybe not right now. they will react and draft the, the results itself. but how have they been reacting to armenia as plight in the last 12 months and what is had to go through? thank you very much for having me in this show inside story. thank you. what i would like to say before answering fully a question is that from the very 1st of days, also the last cultural between those that about john in the media. i mean those are my job. whatever more school was for the integrity

of a media and checking to see if a media and the more square actually had the brokers have a good deal. this is fire between between. i mean it does that about john and so, and it's very important for moscow useful neighbor neighbor in the caucasus and moscow also would like to see more stable relationship with media. what channel the results would be on the tomatoes election. and another thing which i would like to, to, to note is, sorry, sorry, i just told my thought ok. and another thing which ma school would like to see is the because it doesn't have any preferences for any candidate. but i would like to say that the actual prime minister in the boss made some and g credited onto moscow sentiments. and that's why the attitude, the general attitude, the problem is at the soft mistrust to the present authority.

so indeed, let's go about 200000000 in yet of and obviously, you know, the big question is whether pushy she and patricia and can actually hold on to power. when there are many of you might say the old guard and those as even mr. nickle perhaps alluded to that there may be some in armenian politics that favor a much will close relationship with russia. and this is going to be the real dilemma for the voters on sunday. certainly of the $25.00 political parties that have been registered in the election on august the only a few of them will make it into parliament. really. the consensus is that armina doesn't really have alternatives available. other than a strategic partnership with russia, as by didn't mentioned, certainly pushing on represents this concept of color,

revolution type of movement. however, the reality is that after the war, he's firmly even before the war. the question of our participation in the region economic union, the collective heat security treaty organization, these, these never came under question and sort of there is this consensus that are, you know, will be working with russia. and frankly, as a result of the war. a lot of army and saw that type of response from european and north american partners during the war and, and they saw that there, there is not going to be a possibility to rely on them in the, in the security sphere. and currently there are real threats. there's or as you be, johnny soldiers have crossed the border into the republic of armenia. i, i believe the last number was there was about a 1000 troops, several kilometers into the borders of i will, i think, touch upon that later in the panels. we just wanna focus just on the election 1st

because the g, a publisher see fits into that very, very neatly and how to be on it in washington d. c for the electra did. armenia is, is a choice between sort of arrogance and corruption of the past. versus, you might say the politically not even the reckless nature of the current administration is a real choice for the electorate in armenia on sunday. i think the polls that we've been following have shown it and i think over 40 percent nearing 50 percent of the people are undecided. and i think that choosing between basically the 2 evils right now for many people that i know it is also about giving a 2nd chance to pushing young. i don't know how much of that is going to happen. the polls the pull results will show did the elections control tomorrow. i really hope that the elections will be conducted in the best possible transparent way. and this is a key thing for democracy, united media and for pushing in administration to begin with. no administrative

starts is being used. we've been following different processes already, but the big, big, big, big picture will be more visible tomorrow. and i do hope that there will be no post election, a negative developments. i would have to the state here that probably in the ninety's, this is the 1st time when armenia will have really the most unpredictable election . nobody can really say what the outcomes of the elections will be. but i do really want to touch upon a point by vladimir, our colleague in moscow. we think that, well, yeah, russia doesn't go, doesn't really have any favorite. yes. directly. let me 15 or others in the kremlin are not showing any favoritism but proclaimed in hybrid media. organizations have been demonized administration for years now. number one, number 2, i agree that there may be some sentiments that can be considered as anti criminal by pushing young. i believe that this is mostly because of a lack of experience. there have been mistakes made, but there have also been fundamental decisions that have been made like, for example, right after the revolution,

sending armenian doctors and the miners to syria, which was not happening before on the bigger picture. i think that pushing himself into rhetoric, or by making mistakes he might have in a way degradation relations with moscow. but i think in general, within the army in public, because of what happened as an, as a result of this war, how russia behaved in this war, yet it did come in at some point dr. $44.00 days to broke her, a deal, an announcement that stopped the bloodshed, but it also did not really come to the expectation levels of darwinian people where the strategic partnership for over 3 decades now with russia were expected to, to, to gain much more, to have a different level of engagement that at least the protection of the armenian public head. so i think in general, and i'll allow stopping in general, there is a lot that has been discussed within the army in public. and i think that one thing that we should be very careful about is that armenia and the unions, you know,

i mean, you're not really have entire russian sentiment, though the puting crumbling should be very careful in going deeper in creating the sentiment that i don't think is going to result in anything positive and i missed a mistake and it's not agreeing, but i want to get back to me as something to cough in moscow because it does suit, perhaps russia's needs right now to have a neighbor that is slightly pro moscow. but also has been democratically elected in a world at the moment where democracy in the issue of democracy is so hotly debated, especially when it comes around elections. this is sort of a win win for moscow really, isn't it? yes, it is. actually, her kremlin doesn't have anything against the democratic. it's really the democratic election is actually more. i would like to say that to my mind was him butcher, the russian leader. i actually don't want to have any gratian though, i mean the situation off of that is also the election. we, we actually,

we stand for the matter about what some of the results will be. we will have to see what will be there to, to offer the media. and then you all the, all the media authorities to the development of relations with russia and between the, between the elected leader of the media people and between rational presidents or whoever will be in our rush. so i would like to say that my prediction is probably in the 2nd tour of election i, it seems to me just regularly that the robert could checked on good reason. but that doesn't mean that doesn't mean that the nicola watching on could take, could take o check the necessary amount of boats, and you will be again, the leader of, i mean, it's all this fight all lisa elections. i mean, this is very important for people, and i would like to say that russia actually, traditionally i agree with my american to lake or that russia traditionally,

all always support at that meeting cause me that i mean, the amber, all the problems with my going to come back, this is they had be then from this other bullshit. ok. actually i think that for, for, for moscow whatever the choice. so i mean people will be more school would like to develop good and stable and probably again starting partnership with, with you all the 47. thank you. okay. well let's bring in 110 new kin bucket. and yadda, yvonne, i mean one of the candidates this up for the election is all but champion, as mentioned by my colleague where we challenge president between what 98 to 2008, he had the armenia block. he's pro moscow. but also he had a very interesting statement. he said that he wanted to rebuild national security and regain last territories. it sounds like he might want to go to war or might to

start or might want to start controversy again. is that a real concern to you as a, as an armenian and to maybe some people in the electorate? so one of the slogans probably cause i official slogan of the army airlines that robert coach needs is everything is going to be okay. and the implication of that, although although it was the 1st president of army, there was also running and election that going down said that culture and statement implied a restart of the war culture on was heavily involved in the negotiating in the peace negotiations. during his tenure his his implication that he is saying with that statement is that i have the standing to negotiate the return of the hard route. and she, she areas which were part of the nagondo car park autonomous,

all blustering soviet times, but are now under control of azerbaijan. and sort of that, that was a new development as a result of the war and so called charlie on is, is implying, not really not really explaining how he plans to get there other than his standing with, with the players around the table. i'll see how to at the, on, in washington dc earlier how route over the oregon did mention the global political scene. and that attitude to the war. there was a noticeable silence or thought of acceptance of what was going verbal condemnation of what was of the conflict itself, but not much more from the u. s. not much more from the e. u, as if, you know, we need this to play out and get it over one thing for all because you know, we're not going to get involved in the caucuses. let russia and turkey thought it out. it's not the sort of general impression you got. well,

we have to bear in mind that the war was happening under a different administration in washington. the trumpet, nutrition, which had very different type of relations with turkey and with russia. number number to the overall u. s. foreign policy, whatever it was under the trump administration, i think it was quite an ambiguous one, but was about disengagement from many regions including the middle east and the caucasus and elsewhere saw the silence or whatever. i think among other things definitely was because of the different political administration here as soon as the power changed in america. and i think that's part of the reason why the timing of the attack by out there by john into was peak. it was right, the election time it was, it was the campaign period. nobody really was going to be very active in foreign policy. and of course, the pandemic and many other factors that play dinning the timing of when did the attack happen? so i think that was very carefully calculated for you. i do think that you had

could have done much more. there were several statements by the european parliament than others, but it was mostly of the humanitarian nature. when it comes to the international law and other aspect, i think we have, we are minions. first the we'll probably have to go back and retrospectively analyze, where did we go wrong with what we were talking or doing with regard for not going to go above and not only ministration, but the predecessors as well. one quick comment on robot could try the and agreed with on or yeah, i'm going to, it's all going to be ok, but also very clearly talking about deeper level of integration with russia. whatever that means and just facts. i mean, yesterday, at his rally quite a large rally and a, the, if you wish, a demonstration of power, you could feel a rational flag. so nobody is hiding from wherever. and i think our colleague from russia has been talking about the 2nd tour. it's interesting that i would like to

hear why you think there will be a 2nd tour, although the 2nd round of elections, it might very well be. but it's interesting how, how all, all of the, i mean, pretty much every party that has a chance to get into the parliament has not been doubting the overall strategic nature of armenia, russia, relation. it's about how we're going to move forward, dr. des, and what are the lessons learned, especially after the devastating order we had last year? ok, we all coming to the end of the program. the final question really to her route time and again in yerevan very quickly. so can this election draw a line under the issues and can one candidate really offer long term peace and prosperity that the public in armenia so daily deserves? i think for the most important aspect of the election is going to be fixed concession by whoever does not win. and it's not clear at this point who that's who that's going to be. but in past elections, we've often seen in armenia,

a lot of post election protests, and that kind of instability might draw out political issues and instability. and my hope is that the electoral system has leather and mentioned there is this ability to have a 2nd round. there will be a majority insured at some point, might take until july 18 for that to happen. osha, see what happens. so then we have to leave it that gentleman. thank you very much. much her route. many again in yerevan vladimir stopped me. cough in moscow oss and had gone in washington dc. gentlemen, thanks for joining us on this edition of inside story and of course thank you for watching as well. you can see the program again anytime by visiting our website that i'll just have it dot com for further discussion. go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash ha inside story. you can also join the conversation on twitter handle. there is a inside story from me. the whole rahman on the inside. so we team thanks very much

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