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with will the newcomers have the answers to pull the country out of a deep economic crisis. this is inside stored. ah. hello, welcome to the program. i'm kim banal. lebanon has been called a failing state. it's currency is nearly worthless, food medicine and few are expensive and in short supply, people are unable to rely on basic public services like rubbish, collection, and electricity to keep the lights on. many blamed lebanon's politicians for years of corruption and mismanagement. a parliamentary election on sunday was there chance to vote for change, more than a dozen reformist and independent candidates who emerged from protests against the government in 20191 seats. the iranian backed heads,

while on that its allies lost their parliamentary majority. and some traditional parties performed poorly. the new m p 's face major challenges ahead. as in her reports from boat, many of the old faces are back, but a meaningful number of new ones made it into lebanon's parliament, which now has a new balance of power. the iranian back has been a party and its allies lost their majority, but no other political grouping or party can claim victory. the opposition may be sizable, but not united. what is a 1st, however, and post civil war politics are the so called reformists, who want at least 10 percent of the seats. these are candidates not affiliated to any of the mainly sectarian parties. we have to be as a king maker because we have not, we don't have to be in the polarization. we have to create

a bridge. those new voices will stand in the middle of long time enemies. tensions have already spilled onto the streets. supporters of rival parties fought on election day 3 local observers also documented attacks on their teams by supporters, mostly from she. our groups has below. and among many observers, with so many pressures, especially in the electoral districts of and the bol buckhead mull by some of parties, delegates, and agents, and even supporters. the she, r groups may have preserved the $27.00 seats allocated to their sect, but observer say they can no longer claim souls representation. or they did everything they cancel, intimidates, voters, candidates, and they were presented those in the constituency. and at the same time, does also a, and i've done at the vote. so there's a vote which went outside the box and to their opponents. and that happened for the

1st time in spite of their attempts to keep it contained through the ballot box. there is no doubt change has begun, but the old divide has bala and its allies on one hand and the christian lebanese forces on the other hasn't gone away. lebanon's leaders will need to work together to agree on a new governments and elect a president in a few months. political deadlock is not unusual in this fractured country, but there is an urgent need to adopt performs and laws to rescue a collapse the economy and a polarized parliament won't make that easy. the divide dates back to the civil war which ended in 1990 after which power was divided between sects. but lebanon's parliamentary democracy is in reality a consensual democracy. unanimity is needed for the system to work and peace to be maintained that the ushers eda failed. now as a dimension power was divided between the 6 after the end of the war in $990.00. and that system aims to guarantee political representation for all of lebanon's 18

sex parliament seats, a split between christians and muslims, and allocated to different denominations. within each religion, the president must always be maronite, christian, the prime minister, a funny muslim, and the speaker of the parliament, a shameless them ah, why they'd bring in all of, i guess, all joining us from, by roots, we have, but in a meal, a political activist and lawyer who was running for a parliamentary seat, jamal gotten a political commentator and reisa abraham co founder and ceo of garage dot com and independent digital media platform. a very warm welcome to the program to you all. i'd like to start with you that in a meal you ran for parliament, you didn't win a seat in these elections won't. you will take on the results generally, as you look at them, how much of a shift is this really for lebanese politics?

hello and thank you for having me today. i think over and over with you. i think what happened in these elections was historic for the 1st time, were able to break the report of the ruling class of this tradition as the ticket parties. and to bring in the seventy's, we're going to the parliament. and now we see that the parliament is really from the people to the people. so i think it's not negligible what, what has happened. all right, i'd like to cross out to you earlier in him. do you agree with that assessment? i mean the hezbollah lead blocked last in parliamentary majority, but they still has the law and i'm all still retained the same number of seats. so what does that actually save a candidate who has lost in those elections

and is considered them, is static. and indeed, what has happened was for 4 or 4 professors for demonstrators who in 2019 states was in editing. wait a big win for the news for that i didn't use a position if the, if we may say the people who haven't been is taking it for the last 2 years. and we've seen it across the country from the north for the past with 2 seats. in south not being lost from the job to the of his below and that we have in the last of the vision faces invalid. and it didn't, you couldn't fix the presenting pretty much you again across the country. so exactly with the, to the issue with and understand the i'm will have to this house with a to the north with a place that i don't use and that's more losses for it has

a nice in terms of losing the majority to be less majority that could allow, imposing politics inside and this has been not even if you look at the mathematics in terms of the big loss of the s p. m. if you that you know, the movement at the level that being the legitimate and the biggest, it isn't that the christian voters this has or to change because in numbers and it isn't so across the board so that we can easily say that this was a best case scenario, who did i been a niece who i outside the establishment and never know when it is indeed i would very much. it is a study achieve you mentioned the s p m for our international audience. that is the feel free patriotic movement,

party of president shall own which was the biggest christian blog is no longer. i'd like to pass over to huge amount of course in. what do you make of the results is this actually indicative of a major shift is has been really losing support? absolutely not. this is the, i mean, i don't agree that one pretty much expected that there was an expected the law that was going to come to the ruling majority, the previous ruling majority in favor of emerging forces. the thing is that we still don't know where the division lives right now. one who actually may have majority. i think we do have an interest block between the former leading majority and the former part of government. we're in the unit to government that decided to play the role of opposition. and right now we might

see a different electrical all together. it's not to solid blocks, but there may be 2 blocks. and that swing block in the middle, that is composed of old veteran politicians like the for the speaker of the house and what it's blocked, the leader of the progressive, the social movement, 12 known to play, swing roles in the history of lebanon. and now they can actually have a bigger se, because they can play in the middle and swing one way or the other, depending on the issue. and i think this is what we're looking at right now. more than a complete shift in the political power. those just a complete, it's just a shift in the makeup of, of coalitions that will be in parliament. ok. i do. but in a meal, obviously, as we've been saying, one of the biggest things to come from these elections,

the election of new independence. so the so called reformists looking to shake things off. can they really make big changes given the rigidity of the entire system? i think since there is more than 10 m p 's now no, they're able to present an appeal in front of the term of the consider constitution. however, i think our skins about them is that are now in parliament, is that they are from grassroots, or from the movements from the streets, from the heart of the 17 of october, appraising. this means that there will still be pressure on the streets. and this means there will be if the copper some sort of cooperation with them, this means that we will all still support them and try to help.

this means that we will still put more pressures more pressure, whether on the speeds weather in this, in the gifts, whether in the universities or so i think care it serve as if we see it from a holistic approach. i think there's a lot to be done. aaliyah abraham can independence, actually work together as a block? how much unity is there. i this is a very important point. i think what the about to see, and this is of course a taking into consideration. that's why this is used by the government by law, which is in previous episodes, it's less to dive inside the dynamics. i'm going to change the what we have seen over the last more than 15 years was that i was ation within parliament. and just looking to put it nice, there was nope with it because i never know there was no was good. and i was

mentioning this idea because in the notes that i very important that i didn't speak, this was important that had been used to the evidence that the news. now with this connection have shown us is that the news can be about the dice about the economy, about having it about having just having an income. today you're talking about the country with 80 percent of the population is unable. that, you know, this is what people get and what the, i see we are seeing people who are coming in now. you look at the book of 17 people, the fact that they, they are not important how to present the different regions and nothing on the defect. is not important, what's important is that the key from october 19th and from october 17 and that they would not even and now to walk inside that problem. and that is and then that will find them in today was who had it in his heart next to his wife trying to get and for the next the next to parliament. and now he is just the,

the inside on it should expect the change of dynamics within a non again, and think that it's less to be put in that term. all those people that are some would be extremely sophisticated balance in environmental issues and he cannot make it. and i'm pretty sure that input will not be a how important it is that the or, i think it's very important that the at the present, that as a mattress. okay. oh yeah, i just want to diverge on i, i hear you. i want to, i want to, i want to push in to something that you raised as you said, 80 percent of the population according to the un lives in some form of poverty. if you're looking at, i think it's 20 different indicators. things like access to sanitation, health, school attendance as well as things like income. i mean that's, that's phenomenal. if the population is obviously struggling so much. why were

there not more people voting for reform and why were they not more people voting for independence? because this was a sanction election as well. the boy putting in some areas was established. i'm not going to give you what we have is that the keys in the, in the over on them out. but it was nice and some people who does a lot of this for this change and other people don't have the ability to go in certain areas and what was more, that was just a vote of no confidence and then other people to do both. both of no confidence in the political establishment, then you come on the ongoing and other people know that didn't they didn't have access to the need. yes they have but he went north. so this is, this is really understand the class. there was so much that was done to do what you

did to do that. and i people in a lot of cases to and that when they, i don't to be going to vote against the different mission and the country. and i'm going to record that, had he not the election, which was again play that would not like literally it was that when you just the know we have to take a look at a buyer. i have to buy as well that made a difference at the level of the, of the finally did they put people okay, demand growth in about cost over to you? what message if any, do you think that the voting in of this number of reformers candidates? what, what message do you think that sent to the political establishment?

again, we must look at different numbers because if you look at the numbers in light of what was happening in lebanon, and we see that there is a strong, very affirming vote for some of the powers, like got more votes or last time for the f, b m, they were predicted that they would be the demise of them. they lost a couple of votes. voting get turned out. what we saw there, like the new block that came in, basically came and inherited the block that basically withdrew him what part of the election. and we're talking about the future movement led by former prime minister start read it. and these people who we call are some people are calling reformers. also assuming that they claim to be reform as we were talking about poverty and about the economic issues, we have yet to hear any different economic proposals that might come from some of

these people actually of the new candidates in parliament, they're actually carry the voice of the i m f and the bankers, and they're pushing for the privatization of state assets in order to recover the losses of the ponzi scheme that the banks have. so this is the, this is a very dangerous thing that the lebanese people might be, must be aware of because you have the illusion of new faces. but it's going to be the same economic policies that lead to this economic loves. they're basically how re neil, how rigorous and talking about everybody here. of course i'm talking about, i mentioned that there are other that people doing got taishan in the media. one of the candidates at $1.00 and $1.00 big mark bell was the host of a prime time t v show to create an alternative. i don't know what more attention in the media can a platform again, and a lot of does that run and his circle are pro,

i am at policies there, pearl privatization, and they are not any different economic leave with their policies. then what god lebanon to this does after that there, and it doesn't sound like you have any hope of any change. mr. coffin, i mean, whoever is the new prime minister will have to work with the international monetary fund to try and get live on out of crisis. so do, do you, do you have any hope for the future if, if what has gotten the country to this point, it sounds that you don't expect anything to change. well, this is the whole, i mean, the raising the hopes it is dangerous, because the problem in lebanon is not technical. it's not a matter of a minor legislation here, or a law. here are policy here. it's actually structural this country has been in trouble or, and on week ground systems is it's inception a 100 years ago. we've always had collapses wars and it's always seems to spiral

down into this area because there is a structured structural issue. you cannot have this country built on this confessional system, even if you look at the elections there right now, you see that there is under representation of people from certain areas in certain religions compared to others. and this has to do with their social class with their, whether they're old money or old establishment or not. so the diffusion is elsewhere. it's not about this, and this is structure. this cannot be resolved by it. i just need to look at lebanon, needs a new constitution, and use a new, a social contract in order for it to solve its problems. i can see earlier if you want to jump in, what did you want to add there in mind that they could change the newcomers? i knew or is that the time to test them? i will need that. they need to get the time to be tested today. we are needing what

have they done. the dollar has, as john is even, haven't even walked inside argument and people asking change that is going to happen. so we need to give them time. but to say that the then the bank peers, again, let's look at the best. let's look at the candidates. that's the running on minutes of admission in south lebanon. mr. my one headed the why is it presented that he's the owner who has played a role in transferring money that i've never known? when did the zinc did when he was on the, on the list of has been law and does not get would a bank is when that and he lost to somebody who does not come from the family, who does not come on a i n s 2 kids who are on different, this is a government, this is a system that has already taken us into bankruptcy. it's cannot. it said it figured

out the economics of missions, news, whatever it is. but to say that the newcomers are the ones, a few thing with the ins is, is simply the next correct. all the data show is exactly the opposite, where we are coming almost to the end of the program. we've got a few minutes left, but and l are me and if we look at the road ahead, the current parliament expires the 22nd of may. then there has to be a new speaker elected. then the president calls for binding consultations to choose the prime minister, who will form a government. how do you foresee this process? how do you think it's going to go? i think that the challenge here is, i think for the 1st time for the ruling class, this is you believe that the parties don't have as we, as i was saying before, the monopoly over presentation. i think they are afraid because something has changed from the mental change. i agree with mr. my way of saying that, i think we need fundamentals,

the magic change. but i think sometimes this kind of change can be met through the legislations. and i think if we continue to present some laws, if we continue to lobby from the inside from the outside to put pressure on the switch, but pressure everywhere, i think, yes, we can. we can meet the change that we want. as for the next month, i think it's important for the next, i think what's, what's most important is the economic economical crisis. and the way out. and i think what's most important is not to say the, the, the states, the states resources. so i think that's the most important thing in the coming of phase. thank you very much for your time. but n l r merely thank you all, i guess tomorrow got in and aaliyah abraham and thank you to for watching. you can

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