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the people lebanon turned out to vote. what turned out to be historic parliamentary elections? what difference could a new group of independent and pete have a country that is already suffering and tried to cope with multiple places? we thought the stream was remy cory. the lebanese parliamentary elections has created a slightly revised reality in the country. and the dominant force of hezbollah still there, they maintained all their basic seats. they and their allies do not dominate parliament, like they used to control and on their own. they have to make deals now to, to get the policies they want. and they can block other people's policies. are christians are more fragmented, so these are pretty much out of the picture temporarily. and the parliament, they're very weak and they close here in the members of parliament. many of them have lost, and the most significant thing are the 16 members of parliament to identify with the reform movement and the protest movement altogether, the parliament has to focus on stabilizing the economy,

fixing the lead exchange rates, restoring electricity, and restoring a sense of normalcy. and hope in the country. well, i so much to talk about in this show. let's meet our pan over rina. be korea nice to have you all here on the stream for rena, please introduce yourself to international audience. hello, thank you for having us. so my name is that in a l m e n. i am a lawyer at the association. i'm a political activist and i run for the parliamentary elections of 2022 as the youngest candidate and met in suburb. okay, verena, how did you do? don't keep us all on tenterhooks. tell the audience, how did you do? how did you fare in the elections? i think this elections were historic. and in terms of the emp is, that's where that's where raising from the emerging political parties from the heart of october,

17th pricing. and i think there was one for the 1st time, there wasn't a monopoly of her presentation from the for the show political party. and that was impressive in my opinion, that there are a lot of obstacles and the last that a lot of us to be done. but it's, it's a good step that brought hope to many robbins and a smile on the face of a guest. he's on a show talking about lebanon. i love that a. be welcome to the screen. welcome back, get. have you, please remind our audience, who you are and what you day? hi, my name is abby baton. i'm a journalist and i've been covering lebanon's endless problems for the last 20 years, but there's some good stuff as well. get daddy and kareem. nice to happen, please introduce yourself to the st. louis. yeah, thanks for having us. for me. my name is kim british and i'm a researcher and writer also silicon on that and political affairs local. all right, i'm going to bring in a newly elected member of parliament happened. listen,

let's see what she has to say had been. come and meet any of the back of her. is her optimism warranted? let's take a look. nice cut out upon what people decided this time. they have hope they are crying, they're happy, they can't believe it. there are people who wanted to leave and told us we won't travel, we hope now. they're saying we have hope with all their hearts who had hope in the state. before in m. p. 's ministers, we are planting hope and god willing, we will harbor change, shall i keep them last? well, i would say a shallow that's a big show right there, because you know it, democracy has been very impressive in lebanon. i guess, relatively speaking. i think we have a lot to be grateful for that. we pretty much did that election without anybody being killed. that's quite a feed in lebanon, at least any, any major battles were not had. and i think, you know, these parties came out of nowhere,

and it's really impressive for in any political system on earth for parties who are not in the government to just come in and have a big number of seat upsetting people have been doing this for decade. so it's been a very impressive one. however, i would say that democracy is not the only thing a country needs when it isn't at the economic disaster. and i'm not always sure that, you know, countries will be rescued by democracy. and the parliament is a very mixed molly, crew of people who are not really going to agree on many things. and we need at this time more than ever and agreement to salvage this country. we're in a deep, deep financial, one of the worst the world has ever seen. so how can we have a fragmented parliament and fix those problems? you know, we have fundamental conflicts in this country. that's not going to change is because basis change, although it is a great opportunity and hopefully in the long term i'm optimistic and i think that will pave the way for a lot of people who never saw themselves in politics and say it's possible. but there's

a big challenge ahead and i don't know if we're going to face it any differently, would be the last challenges of the last decade in lebanon. just never had a moment's arrest and actually grow for. and i'm just looking at some of your campaign materials on my laptop politics over coffee with candidate verena, our meal. did you change the way that you campaigned because you were younger cuz you are younger because i'm good. and now may i draw a line from 2019 to we're we are now with these new independent mpg, these reformist mpg. does it connect? i read a back to people getting onto the streets 11 and saying this is not good enough. we want more verena. i think concerning my campaign, i wanted it to be just a simple and just like us,

our generation and i think for the 1st time maybe i think if we go back to the pricing or our voices were heard, we were frontline, there is. and after the bill last month on august for we were the one on the street trying to clean up the street when, when the state was absent at that time. and after the economical crisis where the youth were forced to leave them because there was no possibilities, no job opportunities, the j a has risen drastically. it's the biggest economical crisis. never has seen since 150 years. and i wanted to show that yes, we can still have some possibilities here. we can still change the political scene . and i'm staying in webinar is still a possibility. and i wanted to break the stereotype of the politician as

a lot of money with big networks of translucent, was over than 50 years old male. this. so i wanted to get some highlights a bought, but you didn't get elected. so are you now put off? or you put off like use my to stereotype that you would if really matter if you had, if we were talking to you as a new m p. right. not a lot of that kind of a yeah, i think districts where i was running was really high as the 1st time where the position groups are present or the alternative of faces are present. my list what the list. i was 88 votes away from securing is. it's the list where there was 60 percent of women, a lot of use their presentation. i think we're in that we're, we're in that for i think we're close. i think we,

we reached there was something that had changed and met and a district this list. everyone was saying when we started it, we'll get only 252023000 votes for more than 11 and 5. and you're still smiling or brian. yeah, i can tell you you're happy with how you did. all right, so to me i want to bring in an sleep here because i am wondering, we had a bit of a shake up. but can this new mix get the job done? earlier we spoke to alice lynn. this is what i had to say. and then can you come off to remove the back of your thoughts about the challenges that this new parliament wants? it all gets together. we'll have his alley the yeah, that's how these folks have so many faces until the other month. however, the by the method, it blocks a mean very that's all it and the fact method which would definitely lead to more

sanctions. i'm all established for policies and new emotion could produce and also the policy analysis of or some people who are accused of being she is support it is it and my status for let's good policies and leaders. and i assume also the economists and the definition of the currency and the fee for we are experiencing would result in more political $2.00 or more and performance of any cabinet formation, at least for the next few weeks. go ahead. so, i mean, despite the fact that there were so many violations documented by despite the fact that i agree with it in other days, elections are truly historic to some extent. because for perhaps the 1st time in a republic history, we do have

a sizable block of non sectarian parliamentarians who do want to challenge some facets of the system. i'm not going to talk too much about the fragmentation within the traditional elite to dominate the parliament. but within this block of opposition and peace, there is the main fault, i think, over the causes of the financial crisis. so why don't some keys do believe that the banks have to pay their fair share of the burden their fair share on the financial losses? because the banks and the brooding, the political leads are the same by those, you know, the one in the same, some other fees, despite the fact that they might have socially progressive views, they might be in favor of civil marriage. they might be in favor of women empowerment a quarter for women in parliament or what they might not have the same views when it comes to how to solve the financial crisis. i think this is focused on right now as when it comes to the opposition and piece because we can't expect watch from the

traditional sectarian parties. at least we have these empties that do represent a sizable segment of the population. they're the ones that we have to pressure to, to at least make sure that the banks in love on pay, their fair share and don't get away with the crime that they and the politicians. one of the same have committed, have been got pick up, go ahead and shoot. i mean, we have to be are full with the term secular independent. because what really matters right now is what's your economic policy? and we don't know what the economic policy lot of people are eligible are, you know, coming from the same system. you know, some of them are business men, some of them are back by millionaires. and we have a problem with the capitalism of lebanon. it's, it's very unforgiving, it doesn't tax the rich, nobody, the government doesn't get any revenue because it's a very regressive system. so how can we even have a state function if we don't have any, any kind of accountability for those who make the most money in the country. our

last 2 prime ministers were billionaires and countries who are making 20. busy dollars a month minimum wage. so there's a deep economic schism in the country. unfortunately, this election was mainly about politics. was mainly about, you know, the kind of cold war between the united states and iran, who is better, who is the better guys. we want to really run like a really nice state, but we didn't really tackle the problem of we're in a country that makes almost nothing. we also have no industry in the country. there's no support. so we have this really hyper capitalist system in the country that very few are actually taking a position on and the one party that actually had a platform didn't win and he elections. and so most of those who won actually had almost no platform. and we have, it's a mystery to us. what's going to happen, how are they going to vote? and again, this is the time when we need to have not a debate and parliament believe have a solid team effort to rescue a country. that's where the worst crisis is that the, you know, major organizations have ever seen like the world bank. and so how are we going to do that with my time for showmanship and debate and who's and who's corrupt and

who's gleam, that kind of thing. and these kind of, you know, demagoguery acquisition, we actually need to have kind of towel it seem, it seems extraordinary politicians asking like a student a politician to be able to do that in a political system that is very fragmented. let me add something else. i don't need to shed his headline view casper, this is for our audience watching internationally lebanon currency hits, new low off to vote. crisis deepens, happy. what does that mean to the lebanese currency that you have in your pocket today? what does that mean? what can you landed on like it's like a hot, it's like a hot potato. having currency in your pocket, you just gotta go and spend it on like is it can be worthless. you know, whatever you exchange within an hour or 2. and today i was running around trying to get gas. i'm watching my water tank all day. there's no water in my tank. i'm hoping and praying the water will come off the by water and the water would be more

expensive now because the gas is more expensive. the gas issue was close to there was a last car to get gas today. so again, we kinda talk about level like it's a state that needs to be fixed and my view, it's not even a state if you can't provide power. if you can provide water. if there is no idea who's in charge, we have this constant battle between malicious. it's a war that never ended and it, and if there's no victory, you know, we're living in this course. but you know, we can bring me superman and batman to parliament, but they're not gonna change anything. if you know the whole system is so fragmented, and you have this cold war, don't forget, it's not just the lebanese no saturday, but put money in this lecture. america, but mine is election. i ok. these are, you are not. is that actually a stable lebanon? they're interested in a lebanon that they can control and manipulate. and that's a big challenge to fight those big world powers in a tiny country with no military, 5 inch. so i would just, i just wanted to say that what,

what was good this time was the new m p 's who are in the game. i want to call it that way is that they aren't part of these people are, is ation. if you want, i think they are. most of them are from normal people who just want to serve the people who have no interest with a student who want to abolish the system. and in my opinion, having 10 m p 's now they can present they can present in front of the constitutional counsel for, for the, for the, for the 1st time. in my opinion. i think since they are from the heart of the rising, there will be people who put the pressure on the street. they will put this pressure in parliament. they will try to lobby and change from legislation that would change the face of the system that would lobby for better legislation concerning

the economic crisis, kneecamp control, et cetera. and i think that that's what's interesting and the change of the, of the but it's a concern right now after the elections in my opinion cream, go ahead. oh, i just agree with the point he was making. and i want to add the bits on the when it comes to the currency, because for 2 months before the election, suddenly the living or national currency was stable, rather stable rate. and all of a sudden that's one of the elections and did the currency long. and what was the, what, what happened the percent? yeah, i mean our courtesy has to come completely worthless but has lost or they don't make it right after the elections. basically the currency lost a lot of value. what exactly happens is that the central bank governor was pumping

dollars from the foreign currency reserves in the central bank into the market just to try to keep things stable until election so that the discourse, the public discourse, can be about either has all those weapons or so called sovereignty, even though nobody of the traditional idiots has any idea what they mean by sovereignty. and unfortunately, economic issues, bread and butter issues, the financial crisis was large, absent from the public discourse. so the central bank governor who is currently under judicial investigation and i believe 7 european jurisdictions and a lot of evidence about his corruption has been made public by le been used during this number been used to. busy lists so this, this man is part and parcel of the system is pardon, part of the financial collapse. so to remember something. yeah. let, let me, let me share this because alleys is watching right now. this conversation. he says, how come that the near has lost so much? is it of its value since the end of the ally kids that are for switches?

question, it seems to me, says ari that say, find a selection of the more harm than good, despite the new faith kareem to one a very quick crane comment on that very quickly. i don't think it's useful to say whether it did more harm than good. it's too early to judge and that story to judge, the oppositional people got elected, but that i was seeing the central bank governor was pumping dollars into the country or into the market. and these dollars rather than being used for, you know, productive purposes like supporting local industries or whatever remains of them like happy we're seeing because we don't have industries or sectors in our economy that can export and bring in dollars into the country or hard currencies. what ended up happening is that these dollars of the central bank been pumped into the market just to keep this rate flight the stable. now that the elections are over, we have a new parliament. ok. they thought the if you want to top and the dollars barely

any dollars remaining the central bank anyway. so that's why the currency is, has suddenly lost so much last and people know people 11 and they know that they've seen is i'm going to bring in a new voice here. i believe. would you comment on this for me? this is high school, a secretary general, he was talking as the election results came out. interesting to see his take and what has bullet plans to do a little bit of a look at mccloud? am i what i thought the resistance and its allies have a wide presence in the new parliament. it is a fact that no one can argue in the matter. nation has, as i met, majority will, but no group is able to handle the issues we are facing, even if they obtain a majority given the scale of the financial, monetary and economic crises. in addition, there are the daily life problems, the lack of our tricity medications and food unemployment believe or losing its value against the dollar, which has had an impact on salaries and probably have full play. pay and mal affect

my you don't have a view saying that not even super heroes can get the job done and has, has well as saying, no one group can deal with all of these problems. so what happens? yeah, i mean, they're a very pragmatic organization. they're going to try to play politics and figure out something. i don't know how they can make their life because now they have to make . now the, the biggest 2nd party is a more extreme party. it's like the christian hug bala and you know that they have like a crucifix that they come out with with a dagger on it. so them civil war participant, a lot of people's nightmares. have them in them. so how it has been going to deal with kind of arch nemesis now was a kind of a more of a watered down and mrs. but now it's got this to deal with. so it's going to be very difficult for husband even to manage. it seems and but you know, he's right. i mean, we are facing this daily life problems and cream was right that to bring up the banks. you know, i can't get money. i can't get my money out of the bank, lost their whole life savings. and the bank is giving us

a small amount of money at a 80 percent a haircut. so imagine go to the bank, the $100.00, you get $20.00 in return. so again, it's nice to talk about, you know, demo democracy and young people and youth. but, you know, i feel like this whole conversation is a big distraction from the fundamental problems in the fundamental conflict that lebanon faces. and it's been going on for 100 years. now, every decade, there's a war in lebanon. we would have one doesn't, doesn't, and if you need the other, we can, we can talk about women women representation and talk about the economy and the fundamental changes. so we don't know that you can make policies. we don't know what the economic policies are, a lot of the candidates, so we're not talking about the economy. we're talking mainly about big rhetorical issues. that's what a big right, or a big guess, how big between venue elected empties. and that's what being discussed at the moment on the table a v,

the economical plan that they will try to adopt and that's, and that's the own, that's the most important point that they will construct their coalition upon it. so i think no, they know that that's the main thing or the how to stop it or the most urgent topic. and i think they are on the right track. debating it right now and, and just letting their alliance that it's at the beginning. but the problem is that the people don't know what they're debating, it's still a closed door debate, so we don't know how these who are going to come together again. some of them have come from big money. some of them are kind of like the old school politics, businessman and politics, and i know that some parties do get a lot of money from other party summer again, civil merge, summer homophobic. some are a right now. if eve is like, i am done with politics, verena,

thank goodness we have the positivity in the room right now. oh no, she, we are being asked, what kind of change do you expect to see? this is going to be very brief because that's an entire shout that we could do or just on that one question by itself. kareem your thought in a sentence, the kind of change you expect. because we still have a, a long process of having to pick a prime minister and then a elect, a president said that there's a while to go of uncertainty, but about what this parliament will even look like. but in a sentence, what's the change we're expecting to see? i mean, i'm very sorry to say, but i expect the changes to be much more negative in the very near future. because right now we have a government voice. we don't have, we don't have a government that sometimes they promote a ship carrying windshield elections. and we don't know if these elections will even take place or it will even have a presidential void. good news,

politics. it's really difficult for all of these different functions to get to go actually enact policies or just do something for the. so i very pessimistic. oh, get look at the end on a pessimistic. no. thank you so much crime a beep. i appreciate you, verena. thank you. for being part of the shy, i feel comments and questions on you tube. appreciate you. at the lebanese story is not over yet. i know we will return to it, but for now, thanks to watching. see you next time. ah ah

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