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with high anthony. okay, you're watching the stream on sunday, the people of lebanon turned out to vote in what turned out to be historic parliamentary elections. what difference could a new group of independent and peak happen? a country that is already suffering and kinda coat with multiple places. we saw the stream with remy curry, the lebanese parliamentary elections and created a slightly revised reality in the country. the dominant force hedge below still there, they maintained all their basic seats. they and their allies do not dominate elements like they used to go on their own. they have to make deals now to get the policies they want and they can block other people's policies. are christians are more fragmented. the sundays are pretty much out of the picture temporarily. and the parliament, they're very weak. and the procedure in members of parliament, many of them had

a loss. and the most significant thing over 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 on exchange rate, the restoring electricity, and restoring a sense of normalcy and hope in the country. oh, i said, why should talk about in the show. let's meet app hanover, rena b, korean. nice to have you or he 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, i mean i am a lawyer and they would burn association. i'm a political activist and i run for the parliamentary elections of 2022 as the youngest candidate and met in suburb of. 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 these 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 prizing. i, i think there was one for the 1st time there wasn't a monopoly of representation from the traditional political party. and that was impressive. in my opinion, 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 who's on a show, talking about lebanon. i love that he'd be welcome to the strain, welcome back, get happy. please remind williams who you are and what you day. hi, my name is bobby baton. i'm a journalist and i've been covering lebanon's and less problems with the last 20 years. but there's some good stuff as well. get data and kareem. nice to happen, please introduce yourself to the stream us. yeah,

thanks for having us. for me. my name is getting better and i'm a researcher and writer also to the employer who if there's a lot of them, all right, i'm going to bring in a newly elected member of parliament. that's 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 let's cut out a couple more 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, shall i keep them last? well, i would say sharla, that's a big show right there because you know it, democracy has been very impressive and loving on, 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 feat 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 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 one and it isn't a deep 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 an agreement to salvage this country. we're in a deep, deep financial hole. 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 just 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. say it's possible. but there's a big challenge ahead and i don't know if we're going to face any differently. we've made the last challenges of the last decade and love on just never had a moment's arrest and actually grow for it. 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 m p 's, these reformist, mpg. does it connect? i read a back to people getting on to the streets in lebanon, saying this is not good enough. we want more, verena. i think concerning my campaign. i want that 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 streets when, when the state was absent at that time. and after the economical crisis where the youth were forced to leave. because there was no possibilities, no job opportunities, the jaded it has risen drastically. so it's the biggest economical crisis never has since 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 lebanon is still a possibility. and i wanted to bring the serious are of the politician as a lot of money with big networks of clients who is older than 50 years old male. so i wanted to change this every time i get some highlights knew how to use much, but you didn't get a negative. so are you now put off, or you put off like you so much the stereotype that you would if really matter if you had, if we were talking to you as a new m p. right? not a kind of a yeah, i think district where i was running was really high as the 1st time where the position groups are present or the alternative in terms of faces are present. my list the what the list. i was 88 votes away from securing it's it's, it's

a list where there was 60 percent of women. a lot of us are presentation. i think we're in that we're, we're, we're in that for i think we're close and i think we, we reached there was something that had changed and met in 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 still so my name is either brian. yeah, i can tell you you're happy with how you did. all right, so cream i want to bring in an lean 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 allison, this is what i had to say and then can you come off cream of the back of your thoughts about the challenges that this new parliament. once it all gets together,

we'll have his alley. the folks have so many faces to the bottom of the however, the parliament could have blocks remain very fragile. and the fact that which would definitely lead to more entrance established group policies and a new emotion to groups and the partners also, the political matter of some people who are accused of being shared support. is it an established good policies and leaders? and i assume also the economists and the dissolution of the currency and the fee for we are experiencing would result in more political to them all and performance of any cabinets 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,

the selections are truly historic to some extent. because for perhaps the 1st time you're republic history, we do have a sizable block of non sectarian parliamentarians who do want to challenge some facets of the system. and i'm not going to talk too much about the fragmentation within the traditional elite to dominate the parliament. but with this block of opposition, and there is a main fault, i think, over the course of the financial crisis. so while some fees 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 ruling, the political elites, are the same by versus, you know, the one in the same, some other and fees, despite the fact that they might have socially progressive views. they might be in favor of civil marriage. they might, you know, be in favor of women empowerment quota for women in parliament or thought 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 to use that to represent a sizable segment of the population. they're the ones that we have to build pressure to, to at least make sure that the banks love it on pay their fair share and don't get away with the crime that they and for politicians, they're one of the same of commitment. i think pick up, go ahead and at the shade, and i mean, we have to be careful with the term secular independence because what really matters right now is what's your economic policy? we don't know what the economic policy lot of people are. a lot of people are, you know, coming from the same system. you know, some of them are business men, some of them are back by millionaires. and, and we have a problem with the capitalism of lebanon. it's, it's very unforgiving. it doesn't acts 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 functioning if we don't have any, any kind of accountability for those who make the most mine in the country. our last 2 prime ministers were billionaires in a country where people are making $20.00 a month minimum wage. so there's a deep economic schism in the country. unfortunately, this election was mainly about politics, was mainly about the kind of cold war between the united states and iran, who was better, who was the better guides we wanted to really run longer than i had states. 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 people 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, it's a mystery to us. what's gonna happen? how are they going to vote? and again, this is a time when we need to have not a debate in parliament. we'd have a solid team effort to rescue

a country that's. and we're, the worse crisis is that the, you know, major organizations have ever seen like the world bank. and so how are we going to do that? it's not with lot of time for showmanship and debate and who's and who's corrupt and who's claim that kind of thing. and these kind of, you know, don't demagoguery acquisition. we actually need to have that kind of tall. it seem, you know, seem extraordinary politicians asking for the student a politician to be able to do that in a political system very, very fragmented. let me add something else i got instead of headline v faster. this is for our audience watching internationally lebanon currency hit new low off defense 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 find it out like? it's like a hot, it's like a hot potato, having current senior pocket, you just gotta go and spend it on the link if it can be worthless. you know, whatever you exchanged 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 that water will come up to buy water and the water will be more expensive now because the gas is more expensive. the gas station was close to that was the last car to get gas today. so again, we kind of talk about level like at the state, the need to be fixed and my view. it's not even a state if you can't provide power. if you can't provide water, if there is no idea who is in charge, we have this constant battle between militias. it's a war that never ended and it, and if there's no victory, you know, we're living in this course. you know, we can bring me superman and batman to parliament, but they're not going to 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, you know, saturday, put money in this lecture, america put money in this election. these are not actually a stable lebanon. they're interested in a level that they can control and manipulate, and that's a big challenge to fight those big world power. isn't that any country with no military?

a 3rd area. so i would just say, i just wanted to say that what's, what's, what's 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 the polarization 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 the system who want to abolish the system. and in my opinion, having 10 m p 's now they can present and they can present in front of the constitutional counsel. and for, for the, for the 1st time, in my opinion, i think since they are from the heart of the rising, there will still be people who put the pressure on the streets. they will put the pressure in parliament. they will try to lobby and change some legislation that

would change the face of the system that would lobby for a better legislation concerning the economic crisis, the capital can sure, etc. i think that's, that's what's, what's interesting in the change of the, of the political scene right now after the elections, in my opinion, go ahead. so i just got a call disagree with the points. how did was make it. i want to add a bit on what comes to the currency because for 2 months before the election, suddenly a national currency was stable or unstable rate. and all of a sudden assumes the elections and did the currency long. and what was so what, what happens is that the central 9 over $10019.00 it. yeah, i mean our courtesy has become 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 happened 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. 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 me, let me share this is because ali is,

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 ali that so find a selection of the more harm than good despite the new faith kareem to one a very quick, great 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 piece i 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 how people are seeing. because we don't have industries or sectors and our economy that can export and bringing dollars into the country or hard currencies. what ended up happening is that these dollars of the central bank opt into the hark . it's just to keep this rate slightly stable. now the directions are over. we have

a new parliament. ok. they stop though. if you want to at top and the dollars barely any dollars remaining the central bank anyway. so that's why the currency is, has suddenly lost so much for the last 2 days. notice people 11 and they know this . they've seen as i'm going to bring in a new voice here i be, would you comment on this for me? this is his will a sector general am he was talking as the election results came out. interesting to see his take. and what has buller plans to do? his have a listen at best of luck and more power mar. what will a thought will her the resistance and its allies have a wide presence in the new parliament? it is a fact that no one can argue injured. he told her mother be there in ish, has melissa met, module d will bella 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 electricity, medications, and food, and employment. believer losing its value against the dollar, which has had an impact on salaries and price esl play, pay and mill affect. my, you don't have, if you are saying that not even superheroes can get the job done in his hands while 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 the lives because now they have to make. now the biggest 2nd party is a more extreme part. it's like the christian huff bala and you know, they have like a crucifix that they come out with with a dagger on it. so the 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 kind of more of a watered down them as this, 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 get my money out of the bank, lost their whole life saving. and the bank is giving us a small amount of money at a 80 percent a haircut. so imagine go to the banks $800.00, 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 conflicts that love on 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 are we don't know, you can make policies. we don't know what the economic policies are. a lot of candidates, so we're not talking about the economy, we're talking mainly about big rhetorical issues. that what are the big right or the big,

it's hard topic between the new electors empties and that's what being discussed at the moment. on the table a vi did on the can plan that they will try to dogs 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 hottest topic or the most urgent topic. and i think they are on the right track. debating it right now and, and just letting their alliance, but 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 some positivity in the room right now. on new 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 it you expect, because we still have a, a long process of having to, ah, pick a prime minister and then a elect a president. so there's, 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 or 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 point. we don't have to, we don't have a government that sympathetic mode. we've been slender and 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'm very pessimistic. oh, get look at the end on a pessimistic. no, thank you so much kind 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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