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this is inside stuart. ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm hammer, jim, jim canyons go to the polls on tuesday to choose a new president. parliament and county assembly's candidates held their final campaign over the weekend, drawing large crowds, some familiar faces, are vying for the presidency and their messages are similar. revive the economy, create jobs, and end corruption. many voters, frustrated by corruption and skyrocketing prices are calling for change, or metacity nairobi has more on who is running. and what is at stake? this is kelley made from kenya, staple olga omega. i like most basics here, it's price has gone up and because of shortages, it's not easy to find in the living evenings continue these,

we more businesses will close. we are facing a lot of challenges. corruption, foreign debt, rising inflation and unemployment. a big election issues. and all candidates are promised to cushion households against the increasing cost of living for politicians on running for the presidency. david, while woody a lawyer and pasta george watch acoya, a law professor william router king as deputy president and rayleigh, dinger, a former prime minister. but opinion polls suggest they are 2 front runners. oh router, the current deputy president who describes himself as a hustler and hopes his rags to riches story will resonate with the poor and or dingo who's making his 5th bid for the top. the job. the veteran opposition leader is the son of king as 1st to vice president and enjoys the backing of current

leader who looking at is an election some endless say will be hotly contested. hickory is the largest ethnic group in king. i have no presidential favorites this time, however, both little and no danger have chosen. he qu, you writing mates in the country, you, it isn't voting blobs. are important. i divided e q u votes means the selection go either way. they are already claims and counterclaims of sabotage and voted more than a 1000 people died in the 2007 election. what happens with kenneth, you political significance? is that it just that that tension. oh, sort of begins to, to sugar the or the stability of the, of the great hall of africa and, and the larger east africa. so that's what, and there's a lot of in the muscle of organizations that are bestier as so can you, as we speak for from a global perspective, that's what the intellectual community is looking at. business communities muskogee

just sitting on the edge of your seat, trying to figure out whether this is good ago. peaceful, you know, unlike some previous votes, there's been less pre election violence. kenyans generally have confidence in the judiciary. many hope if the results are disputed, candice will result a differences in court and not the streets harder. matessa al jazeera, narrow, the pre and post selection violence, and kenya is rooted in ethnic tensions every vote since 1997 has been marred by unrest. more than a 1000 people were killed and 600000 displaced in 2007 when rival candidates both claimed victory. 10 years later, dozens of people were killed when police clamped down on demonstrations. the opposition refused to accept the results, claiming vote, rigging and fraud. ah. all right, let's go ahead and bring in our guests in london is fergus cal, a research analyst in the africa program at chatham house. and in nairobi is jackie

corney, k, a lawyer and a writer. a warm welcome to you both and thanks so much for joining us today on inside story. jackie, let me start with you today on elections and kenya are often more about personalities and ethnic alliances. are issues like the economy, the cost of living and fighting corruption more front and center for voters this time than they were in the past and, and see yes them because the cost of living has fast reason to unbearable treat canyons recently had the president as a subsidy on may's flat. yeah. package of meat for detailing. it might be $2.00 and your end to the left and in can yeah. we had, it was kept at a door last because all the financial and economic thinking. it's a mess struggling. yeah. as bad. see if it's taken most anastasia,

and then for the 1st a man for the 3rd channel shooting me a day, i went to the trail that seemed as the mean train for a political, the vision of the fergus, how close is the race expected to be? are, is it possible there could be a run off and, and have the candidates made commitments to respect the outcome? so i think we are likely to see a close race. i think that there are probably 3 likely potential outcomes, any which is possible at this stage. that would be either an outright rather than go in and outright original when in which case either the candidates would need to receive over 50 percent of the so but the 3rd option, as you say, is a run off in which neither main candidates receives 30 percent of the vote, and that might be possible to use that to slightly more peripheral outsider

candidates, david, moderate, and professor want to join. and so it is going to be a tight race bullying suggested that it will be close and it will be about the, the calculus of different regional strongholds, i'm battleground, states as well there. and in terms of a commitment to respect results, i think, are all the way back in march. we had both candidates speak at chatham house here at london in which they both pledge to respect the outcome of a free and fair election. and in more recent weeks in the last week, both agreed that they will shake hands or has tea together after the result is announced. and so i think the important message is that they accept the results of a free and fair election. and as the election is the not to be free and fair that they challenge that within the property, the framework of the separate or jackie,

i saw you nodding along to some of what fergus was saying. so i'm going to let you jump in and add whatever you'd like to add, but i also want to ask you, you know, can you has a recent history of turbulent elections and, and violence after elections? is there a concern this time that violence could play apart and, and from your perspective, have precautions been taken to ensure that this doesn't happen? i think come, i'd like 1st and then just like to commend all the fatty so fi and how give conducted themselves for the 1st time in recent history. we've had the violence 3 relatively violence reconvene period. no movie during campaign periods in kenya will have many strikes meeting after the election. they used to office cruise lines, people can access the central business district. ringback not had any incidences of that. and i think it's because of some of the commitments that have been made by the, the felicia cocaine it is. and i'm, as i can, and i'm really grateful for that to be able to,

to walk almost all through the campaign. people alter the computer homeless. and that's us not being along that commitment to with shaking hands because it's because the general sentimental canyon this time is let's finish this and let's go back to work. because truly when i go back to close the loop or something. but alicia giving to know, so that's, that's their session that if you or jackie, you know, you were mentioning just there, the importance of, of this idea of having a hand shake. and i actually want to talk for a 2nd about a different handshake that, that made headlines a few years back. you know, roy loading has run for president for other times in the past. but this time he is backed by long time political rival president who kinyata. and there was this very famous and public handshake between the 2 in 2018. how did the alliance between these 2 leaders come about and how significant is it? i'm interesting, mr. country met at that time, there was like what, what was that?

nothing was nothing has gone back to normal feeling the action. because the both both play bridge. what discuss disgruntled, remember the leveling by the supreme court of our judgment story by the some feeling the fight the elections. and so when we, when the 2nd election, i held a number of a number of the nectar. it's those who are actually did note what, what drug steam so already, even though we went through the 2nd time the, the number of people who felt like they should want to did not even come up to what was favorable. so this, i think that's handshake was due, but can, i could go or you could be transferred to people and i think at that time it was very shortly but based on what you needed and i know there's a lot of criticism around it. but yeah,

i'd be speaking to someone who the life had been affected and would be affected. you if it had not been resolved that and she was crucial. and, and just for government business to go on with a business to go on for a night to. busy i notice we tend to focus on the highest peaks in politics and we'll get the people who are actually electric fergus. the alliance between rayleigh think and who can the out? basically, sideline kenyatta is deputy william router who is running what led to the fall out between kinyata and router. it's unclear what the precise reasons are for the fall out. there is a general understanding that it was linked to a promise or an understanding between president kenyata and re so that when they came together in what was to some extent, a marriage of convenience. the contest reactions in 20132017 kenyatta

would repay the favor by supporting rito in his can in when he was contesting for the presidency. following the end of the 2nd, of course, with the handshake and with kenyatta packing of, of the b b i. initiative that emerged from that. we have seen that, that promise whether it was made has not, has not been fulfilled. and so in his own ambitions to a sense of the presidency, split off from kenyata, distance themselves from cabinet meetings and ended up leaving the party a form together. jackie, a william router describes himself as a hustler, and he has cast this race as a contest between hustlers and dynasties. so what does he mean when he uses the term hustler versus when he uses the term dynasty and, and has this framing device that, that router was using? has it caught on it?

is it having a big impact in the election thus far in the campaigning? ok for context, our kind president, one this i know why funding president and those 5 of the be jeremiah zilkey. again, i think was one of kenyan vice president. so dec dynasty, bunch of the fact that their fathers have held for the shows off and really aware that they couldn't actually from being able to, to where he is that he gave me his claim that she tells me to come up. and that's, i guess he's appeal and how he's trying to be more the double to the math this for can in the majority, you can give the billing department tonight if i could get you can get. yeah, i'm the fan. no, no. and they me for coming to be to that message,

i think it has the need to fergus, what are the main issues that are separating the leading candidates this time out? what, what platforms are they running on? so i would say that there has broadly been increasing convergence between the 2 candidates on key manifesto issues. but there are separate to some extent, one of them i would say is corruption in writing that has been campaigning on a very strong 0 tolerance corruption platform. that's one of the messages throughout the campaign. whereas for erico, that's been less of a feature of his campaign. and he's chosen instead of to emphasize the needs for independence in the anti corruption agencies. and, and can, has of the need to be politicized, to fight against corruption in kenya. there's also on that, there's some divergence there in terms of router is,

is very sure that his campaign promises in broadening the tax base would allow canyon attackers. it's, it's that issues whereas i think that has promised to restructure and renegotiate some of the art. and i think there's also a general slight difference in terms of the focus of their campaign. so i think is being much more focused on social protection on health care promises particular whereas route. so has a real strong emphasis on this on his economic model, which he calls ultima and on supports entrepreneurs in kenya. jackie, it does seem that corruption is playing a major role in the campaign season. how frustrated are voters with corruption in kenya? and with this and do any of the leading candidates have credibility when it comes to pledges to, to tackle these issues and fight corruption and say can

street and we have, we have 100 to 2 to me just a year where they're most thinkable for, for number yes, it's frustrating to, to, to missouri to been accurate. i need for me to go in to the lecture to into the election period and when they come to the community here i mention, i mentioned that again the menu bit heavy down to believing of it because both, both, both the leading candidate selection, how do you have helpful to have help of influence and there hasn't been felt should be much traction or much change from from, from them being in addition. so i think they had the county to me and the, i think the retail progress on the other is more than one. fergus,

i saw you nodding along, some of your jackie was saying, did you want to jump in? i would, i would, i, for what we're jackie, is, is saying the corruption has probably been supplanted by broader economic issues as, as a key campaigning topic in the selection campaign. but i, i will say that on your question, around the anti corrosive stances of, of key figures that martha crew, the presidential candidate on the, on it as far as i think this company is seeing us as someone with reasonable integrity when it comes to the anti rush and an issue, she's popular with civil society in kenya as it relates to this issue. jackie ry loading a nominated martha crew as his running mate. she's a long time politician, former justice minister. she's the 1st woman to be nominated as a running mate on a major political ticket. has this choice,

energized the electorate and has it given a re loading this campaign a boost? i would say it had because she has never been seen as a phone line. come on the presidential in. i'm a national she's got my where she'd never manage to go much to my house. so however, my back is awful and, and have being a woman who has been fighting for different was this through the 202010. she should've been very instrumental and the things that i think he'd have both that he's company, i think it's one him some and a fun to see. i don't to, i don't have to which will much into individual. but i do think it was a choice, and jackie have the political reforms that were introduced after the election

violence in 2007 have those political reforms made it easier for women and even for youth to participate in the political process. that's definitely definitely i'd say the new institution are to 2010. how many most most definitely going to use because is a program called i want to reach me and then you get that to you by federal government, government business contracts. and i think this has increased access to capital or posters to groups that in the capital event, the directions the money. and if they have access to money, then you can move can move, can you can move or you can, you can make yourself visible. so i think this change things and also the one touch and the more the more push for that will make i'm can go for the actual the i think, but definitely just leave it with and and wife,

when i'm happy for that, fergus, women make up nearly half of registered voters in kenya, but compared to other countries in east africa, kenya. so has few female elected leaders from your perspective. why is that and, and are there signs that things might play out differently this election cycle? well i think partly it comes back a little bit to what jackie was saying just now about the role of money in canyon elections. i think there have been a clear times with us campaign financing laws that would have increased transparency and introduce spending minutes or the campaigns. those didn't eventually end up passing. and i'm so, you know, we have seen kind of unchecked spending by candidates which again does make it difficult for. ready slightly more marginalized groups, entrance in the process, i think as well looking at the number of candidates who are contesting this i'm out

of i think around 60 thousands. total candidates only about 12 percent of those are actually one. and so there's clearly a long way to go on on this front in order to achieve gender representation in senior and politic. jackie, what about the youth in this election cycle? how invested are they? are? are they more apathetic? are they more energized? and how much has the use of social media changed the campaign thus far? i think i think the young people which had previously been you are all excited. i think that will be and i recently saw rebecca and, and i've been, i think when i read it back onto june of the job, been engaging with the other questions that they had me raising from

am and twitter of it with that has been agreed to for different candidates to address issues and i can't compare the social media nutrition that's at this time to mid to but i think to 2017 know the level of it. but i spoke to the interference in $2172022.00 from organic agrees for might have been able to if need be. so i am for the you. i think that more plugins asking one question that i know i've seen on the books, kids being run by james the on what you've suspected. been up presidential debate, how they doubt they'd respond to different issues. and i've been quite impressed just seeing that, i think the 1st i would love to watch out for i think they may change everything. fergus kenya is east africa as economic hub. how important is it to the region that,

that during this election and after this election, things remain calm and stable? it is really significant, not just in terms of can years in, on a crawl, which is obviously significant, especially for the landlord countries in the south region. but also in terms of the benchmark for that with that or democracy, i mean tenure is the only country in east africa to have overseeing relatively stable transition of power between government and opposition. and when you look at the current situation in times neo or uganda, for example, where the context of the really difficult opposition parties operate. i think kenya leading the way in terms of state transition is, is really important. also, when you look, for example of 2017 and the precedent that, that set for the rest of the region and internationally was really significant. we already saw in malawi in 2020, similar in all of a presidential result,

which sites on the senate seat. can you ruling as a president, so can you really has the potential to lead on this within the region and act as a benchmark, jackie from your vantage point there? nairobi. what's the earliest you think that official results would be announced? i think, brady. all right, well it will be very event for an interesting to see how it all plays out of the end. that's all the time we have for today. we're going to have to leave the conversation there. thanks so much to our guest. furgas. kell and jackie can you can and thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com and 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 or handle is at ha, inside story. for me, how much i'm human the whole team here. 5 for now.

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