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intention to apply to fulton finance for membership. the alliance has more than doubled since the start of the wooden crate. poles in lebanon's parliamentary election have closed. it's the 1st general election since in economic meltdown in 2019. unless they, it could be one of the most competitive and unpredictable elections in recent years . somalia will soon have a new president chosen by members of parliament. the election has been delayed for more than a year and been maud by corruption allegations and violence. those people in the capital city on the curfew until the vote is over due to threats from armed groups . it comes as there's a power struggle between the current president obama of the law. he mohammed known as for mondo and the prime minister. mm hm. it, he st, robo. okay, there's the headlines inside stories next. ah.

his intellectual the answer to level as many challenges voters are electing in your parliament in the middle of a devastating economic crisis, but from his management to corruption to outside interference. with this though, make any difference. this is inside story. ah hello, welcome to the program. i'm hashem, abala, lebanon is a country in crisis. it suffered and economic mel down in 2019,

and was hit again during the pandemic in 2020. that same year i'll graphic exposure and one of the largest in human history killed more than $200.00 people and destroyed much of the capital beirut. unable to find accountability for the exposure and the entire government resigned. lebanon's current political system dates back to the end of its civil war in 1990, but into place to bring stability after years of fighting. but now that same system designed to protect if fragile peace is seen by many as an obstacle to real change . we'll get to our guests in a moment. first, this report from a so says there in beirut, as the protocol in stability and the economy crisis continue in lebanon. these elections are being seen by many as a task real change in the country. a total of $718.00 candidates are running

for $128.00 seats in the parliament, which is equally divided between muslims and christians. however, the need of the christians, nor the muslims are united in lebanon. traditionally, 2 competing camps have been dominate in politics. for nearly 2 decades, the march 8th coalition, which includes the pro iranian and pro syrian parties such as the christian free pat your to moment. and the sheer muslim his will, law and amendments on the other side has been much 14 coalition, which consists of the anti iranian anti cillian parties, such as the christian lebanese forces. and this one im, was them a future moment. ander is bruce, muslim. bir progressive socialist party, but things how changed now? so did the leader of the future moment with the thought?

how did he, who was also the former prime minister and once was holding the largest sunni block in the parliament said that his party will not run up for the election and is going to boy court the election. which this is a decision that effectively put an end to march or court, much wanting correlation, and also left the sudanese in the county without a leader. while this young muslim parties are trying hard to gain, gained the majority in the parliament once again. so, in lebanon, there will be a presidential elections in, in, in october. and so the election that the outcome of this elections are not going to only determine who will have the majority in the parliament, but also it will have a remarkable impact on, on who will be the next president and the prime minister of the country. so sad

that for an inside story, lebanon's economic situation is dire. the united nation says nearly 80 percent of his people live in poverty. and more than 300000 lost their homes in the twenty's when to port explosion, medical files are running low and some hospitals are in ruins. and those that are functioning are usually overwhelmed. the lebanese currency has lost more than 90 percent of its value. devastating for a nation that impulse, most of its goods. the world food program says nearly half of lebanon's population is struggling to find food. and banks have been blocking people from accessing their money. ah, let's bring in our gas the or joining us from beirut. ali abraham is a co founder and ceo of barrage dot com and independent digital media platform hike

of women is a project director for iraq, syria, lebanon, or the international crisis group. and jamal lawson is political commentator and former editor of at a bar english newspaper. welcome to the program. earlier, is this election going to do liver, the change that many lebanese had been hoping for? well, we shouldn't expect any miracles to happen. the results of miss elections are to large extent a predetermined by one was a 100 at a 128 seats. and that's because of the law that has been adopted by the political in is find a difference. is this by dick and the contradictions they have put together, and not that guarantees, but he generation of the same for the ticket class that's not to undermine the importance of, of, even as little as the number of seats that could be gained by new faces. and should not to the undermine, we have to look to be actor announced which until this hour continues to be very

low. we have to see what is what kind of margins and loss between or between the representatives or the candidates. if is anything new opposition groups versus the and the political any. if we're looking at thousands of votes that security, the news is from the winners. then. then we can easily say that, that this is, this is a big win for the convenience of michelin. if the loss is high in, in a few 100 boards, it's another landscape. but to say that a full full for the last we have seen how did the political establishment, the whole spectrum has been acting the last few weeks. they have used everything to intimidate, do you motivate a voters from, from having to day to the working force? and again, magic is not gonna happen today. we're not going to see it was natalie, good. possible to see enslaving victory for the opposition, but you have to look at indicators because this is what's going really to earth

kind of dictate how change could be, are happening and ended on were in the future. i co, earth, the voter turnout is going to be low, who's going to benefit from that are in so typically or not in an environment. so low voter turnout. benefits parties, efficient organisation efficient, efficient an actual machine, and who can or have also committed voters, your logic? well, it's committed voters and will always get their turn off and it's less. so that's good for parties that i've done that these, these means. so right now, i mean, unless i have my own job is to go to walk around and look at the polling stations. and i mean, i've seen in some areas quite

a lot of people coming to vote and other areas this at 121 in some areas you had already above 20 percent. quite good. so 50 percent if you get to 50 percent, others a good turn out. we have a 25 percent already at noon, either one in some places. maybe it's not going to be so about jermel. this election comes against the backdrop of growing and t stablish ment, sentiment across lebanon. could it be an indication that the traditional political parties with a setback in this election? i think there is a false dichotomy that says being promoted specially in lester and media. that there is, you know, the anti establishment opposition and establishment that united this is completely inaccurate and does not reflect the reality on the ground level. and there are political parties that are being grouped together that are in no way

c i to i on many critical issues and vital issues in the country and the same with the opposition groups. so this is not really a fight against says stablish ment or i growing resentment of a united establishment that we're not talking about the one party system like we have in other countries or area have talk chrissy is that in many countries around the region? so now we have actually a very diverse country with a lot of different political groups and we have alliances have shifted and change with time. sometimes they form national unity government. sometimes they don't. the idea is that there's one establishment that is in cahoots against any new opposition. that's a little bit absurd, and it's reductive and is really far from true. aaliyah. are you the same

view to me? go ahead. yeah, i actually, i think i would, i would very much the cd with their shamile to very quick. for example, we have to see patio movement and the amendment to traditionally throughout the whole years at, at each other's neck and media and in use that cannot support each other. we see them today and i can directions. we have seen many members of, or bankers for example, like in my one i did it ending on the election on the on biggest of a smaller and the end the and, and to shide the opening. and that's basically because they aren't common interested in political new type now and never know it has been challenged in the streets for during the long demonstrations in 22 a 2019. i agree. it may be that it was it's, it's impossible to think that or without the framework of political parties that

could generate new political parties. it's impossible to stand against that. but a pick, an establishment that has been there for 3 years. it would thing itself so strongly, but to say that this is ian that is in lebanon, is representative of been at the nice people that actually, that it's worth talking about, that population that has been, it of it's money. a basically it's capital completely destroyed, been now 2 people who are actually accused of being and boys are not in a position of, of, of, of the responsibilities of this, this big debate with exclusion. i running a and i today on the, on the exit in this off of this political establishment names that allison finance . and i decided to say that this is the present of the population of lebanese population. is that even not at all a description of what's happening in other on right now? hi, co. it traditionally, the future movement led by saddle. how did he used to control somehow 2 thirds of

the sydney seats in the parliament. now he's not participating in the election. he's asking his own people to boycott the elections. the question is, who do you think is going to inherit the legacy of the future movement? who's going to take advantage of that absence? oh, that's one of the 1000000 dollar questions. so as you said, you are right. the said thought us more or less called on the support, those 2 boys approach the boat. now, not all people in that camp or that used to be people. are he being dot com, right? i mean, right. the blame i lucian, typically running and used to be higher. right? sure. and the most part in the future movement. it was very pop up there. you have watson, you are on the used to be lieutenant maybe and was wanting. and so,

but i think we can expect is surely that we are still new vote if you want to describe it out way is going to be fact that we will have the new parliament, the 2728 seats that are reserved for so nice will be will be held by several small groups and there, and there will be a part of that of those sees of these 20 or $28.00 seats that are held by employees who are sympathetic to or as well law model and, and, and the block of as well, not more than the m. m, and may actually help this block to maintain its majority, which it may otherwise lose or some of the alliance between his vala and the 3 patriotic movement has been quite instrumental in the sense that it has been widely seen as a,

a platform that paved the way for his bella to consider date it's political clout 11. and do you see that alliance holding in the near future with all those reports about signs of disintegration within the free press movement? i think those are also grossly exaggerated. the patriot tech movement will see the results today, but it's not. i mean, it's demise. the cold for it's of its demise is a bit premature. i think if we put you on the call, but they're still one of the biggest parties in lebanon. they will have definitely have one of the top 3 parliamentary blocks after today's election. and that's not a disintegration by any means. and this is the, we have to keep in mind that this comes after an all out attack by major power against pressuring the free movement. and in order to break their license, has been, we've been sanctioned by the u. s. against the leader of the people throughout the

vent brown field, we've seen a lot of foreign forces invest a lot in the opposition forces that are opposed to that b m. and yet, despite all of that, it has held together and it will have a strong showing. and i think the idea was that they wanted to de, listed to the legitimize, bromberg, feels bid to become a serious candidate for president of lebanon as the representative or leader of the strongest christian party in lebanon. and despite all these efforts, i think he still has a legitimate case to be that despite the media conglomerate in lebanon, the. busy all trying to at it was an all out attack basically in the last 2 years, i guess the f, b, m and they still have no, we'll see how far they've lost. and this is what's gonna dictate whether you're

brown but see if can be considered as the president of the presidential candidate that are not aaliyah. do you agree with those who say that the liberties forces lead by a judge are likely to continue to bite into the power base of the free patrick movement and established them so when, when i think even funded in and from the statistics that we have, we see now, are the biggest question, mike, is going to be a christian for today because even at this hour at the stand the alex, the dates are very high in the kitchen area, or whether or not we know super well that night nouns, the besieged is being supported by a, by his by law and its allies, and the, or the even older through cda peasants in london. not whether or not how much will stay a big lot. they will be able to,

to the pain. this is what you would see in the coming hours that has been a lot said over the last few months about who possibly could become president in the coming future. this would be reflected her probably in this election. but again, i was this afternoon and this is the point that needs to be that need to be made because it's about the edge, the migration of, of this political establishment. i went to chippy today in north lebanon to go to my cell. and on the way i stopped in different areas to see what was what, what is happening. and you could easily see with the naked eye that it appears impatient on the gown with, with the representatives with delegates, et cetera. is it easy for the political parties that had the means? it's for the people, and it's not true that the media that have been used mainstream media has supported the opposition, that avenues, mainstream media support, that those will have the financial means to appear on t v. because it was or date and it was, it was undertaken, it was, it was no one that candidates who had the means could make it on t,

v for the longest and the prime and a footprint time slots. this means that this is not to say that this is megan. hey, good elections that, that, that we need to keep an eye on. okay? this is to say that we have to dvd that and then it, when we look at these as becoming fuel out to say, but ok. i co when you have in 2018 the in tibet independence saying that they would, they're going to vi for a bigger say that didn't happen to day. do you think that the anti establishment candidates or the prose october 17th candidates, will make her somehow a difference in the selection? i mean it's, it's hard call, but i think it's, it's pretty clear that the competition that you are seeing now in several districts between different lists, that all claim demands of october 19 movement. that protested

doesn't help. right? i mean, if you have an electron threshold, let's say 8000 votes, and then you have 4 or 5 lists competing for the same constituency, for the same number of people who will do one chain. it may give them one seat or even 2, depending on how it goes into counting and acidic get nothing. because all 4 are below the threshold that could very well be. and now there are many reasons why they were unable to wear on these unified lists, or at least tactical alliances. but i mean is that that is really, really a failure. i would say it is a failure of these groups. are there many reasons why and some reasons make sense, but if today we're not getting getting the results that we're offering for those people where it's a part of this movement for all to, for some of the of the, the reason is also of them as jamel. if the results just consolidate the fears of

the people to which has been going about the same oligarchy, party leaders traditional in leave, there has been the man, ting, sectarian issues in the country. the international community might take a back stage when it comes to delivering the urgent economic rescue package that live in and needs to be able to move forward. there you just touched on it it's. it's not an establishment and a stab listening division. it's a pro neo colonial power, western elite or pro western elite. and there are popular forces that have maintained their presentation and their division and their strength despite and all out the back on them. and the results that they were reflect that you got to see in the numbers that the pro sovereignty forces led by the resist. the

movement has been and its allies are gotten. if you look at the popular voice, because you keep talking about the people, the people, the people just count the votes and see the popular vote. that's going to be you going to see that they're going to be under represented despite winning, they're going to win the majority in parliament. and yet they're going to be under represented because a lot of the people are marginalized in the lebanese electoral system in favor of the center, b root at least, and the rich neighborhoods in the route that get a more favorable count in the election. and that's why you're going to see some people are going to get reach and then the 3rd approach, social around 6000 and get to parliament while others will reach 20000 in areas outside the root and not qualify. because this, the system is biased. the words, the old elite and we're talking here about the bankers who brought the labs and

bankruptcy. that level is going to clone it. and now we're not talking about it. we're talking about an imaginary establishment that doesn't exist. why do you know people have these things? those are things and there are different characterizations as well as a political and scape level is concerned earlier. yes, because i didn't really have to go ahead and read it if you don't mind very briefly . but yes, but the thank you mentioning i'm going to mention a few days ago that one hated is the owner of a mo, added back. he was denied that transferred the money of the son of any who is the center, then governor on october after october 19th, when the deposits of the news people were stuck in the back. this is mr. my one hated you know, running on the list of hezbollah and maybe not. this is not a is gunning on the list of the political establishment, whether it be done and it is the generate, the on board missed. this is a, this is

a politically, that is doing everything to protect it doesn't, and it's, and it's, and to stay in power and to block and to use or the slogan and say, but besides, if you didn't even have the unbiased saying they want a know that, that takes its decisions inside never and there's nothing here. and that's what i wish we had time to continue talking about the elections, of the aftermath of whatever might might happen for the future for lebanon. but in the meantime, i'll be able to hear hike of them and jim ellison, thank you for in site and looking forward to talking to you in the future. and thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website, eligible dot com for further discussion. go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha insights, but you can also join the conversation to what our 100 is at a j. and so i sort of for me how shall i model of the entire team here in the uh huh. bye for now.

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