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is a textbook example of people making compromises to get legislation passed. one thing joe biden did not one is continuing support for the oil, coal, and natural gas industries, but there are protections for those industries in the big eared that is what was necessary to get a -- the bill. that was what was necessary to get joe manchin to support the bill. anchor: liz cheney is fighting for her life and an election in wyoming. polls have her trailing her opponent. she investigated the attack on capitol hill. an israeli newspaper is reporting a military investigation has confirmed five palestinian children have been killed in a recent flareup in violence was an israeli strike

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>> he was vice president of kenya for years, now he is president. is he up to the job? and what is his plan to tackle the country's many problems? this is "inside story." ♪ hello. welcome to the program. on monday, the head of the kenyan electoral commission declared the winner, nearly a week after the presidential vote , a narrow victory where the official results show he gained 50.5% of votes while his opponent received 48.8%. just before the results were announced, four election commissioners cast doubt on the results. they were also disputed,

alleging reg irregularities. he received the endorsement of his longtime rival, but results show he won in the president stronghold. before we go to our guests, here is this report. >> it's not about issues. it's about the economy. how was the economy is struggling, many families say the high cost of rising inflation is making it difficult to make ends meet. president-elect william ruto says he will turn around the economy by introducing social airfare programs. a condensate that will not be easy as the country is heavily in debt and borrowed a lot of money to build infrastructure politics. economists say the canyons will

end up paying that back, so they hope the economy will be turned around. a lot of things are not going well. behind me, some businesses are closed because of the uncertainty and so many businesses have been struggling. we will see if he offers anything new. ♪ anchor: let's bring in our guests from nairobi. dennis, the campaign secretary for the president-elect william ruto, the executive director of a nonprofit that works on youth clinical engagement in kenya, and a constitutional lawyer and member of the committee of experts that wrote kenya's constitution. i'd like to start with you, dennis. you were campaign secretary for the president-elect.

how are you feeling with the results and not all the election commissioners were endorsing the results? >> thank you very much. good evening to the viewers. we are elected. we are thankful to god that the elections were announced in the favor of the nation and the process was the most intense process that i have ever gone through. i think we have it to them giving us a process that was peaceful, and the process of validation and verification was one of the most truthful and open processes this country has gone through and will be established as a case study across the world.

i don't think there's any global electoral process that has been as open as we have ever seen, and we are thankful to god there is a strong progression in terms of an electoral democracy in this country, so we are very elected and looking forward to essentially a government that will be inclusive and a government that will to, you know, perform, you know, absolute set of issues affecting does. anchor: we will come back to the future in a moment. four election commissioners cast doubt on the results. what is your reaction to that? >> our reaction to that is i was privy to the dealings. in fact, the vice chair who is part of the team complaining read the results of the 2022, and we are surprised she is part

of the team complaining. they were involved all through. if anybody has issues, they should go to the constitutional mechanisms to complain. now the constitution provides seven days. that is for litigation. we are confident the process was viable, and we don't see issues whatsoever, and the law is very clear that it is the chairman of the commission that is the one who then calls the president-elect into being. anchor: so you are happy to see the process through. should we expect his supporters to can then use protesting, and what is the feeling among young people in the country, how did they vote? >> well, thank you for having me. this time around, the turnout

was low compared to what we are used to, 65%. when you look at the overall number that could vote, 99 .8% were young people between 18 and 35, 8.80 million, so young people's are fewer from 2017. they were 50% of the voters block, so there was a big dip in many decided not to participate. when we look at this particular election, both coalitions are very strong, garnering half of the country both of them, so one side is elated and excited, and the other side is grieving. even this afternoon, he did mention in oppressed briefing he would take the matter to court, so some supporters are excited. some are drained by the entire

process. time will tell. they have the right to do so if the process was adequate enough for him. anchor: from a legal perspective, the legal challenge likely to happen, how does it work and what should we expect? >> will, as my co-panelist said, raila odinga did mention he and his coalition will seek all constitutional and legal options , and so we are to assume he is going to file a petition in the supreme court, seeking the invalidation of the chairpersons pronouncement yesterday, so the constitution does say that after the declaration, any person, so

it does not have to be that contestant, any kenyan who feels they have an issue with the process and the declaration, they have seven days, and that begins from today, ending next tuesday, to present their case before the supreme court of kenya. and as dennis said, the supreme court will have 14 days to hear, receive evidence, and also for respondents to file defenses, and at the end of the day after 14 days, there will be a determination, and the determination can go two ways, either validate the pronouncement from the chairperson, which means the president-elect will be moving forward now towards being sworn

in, which will be after seven days, or invalidation, which the only route would be a fresh election which must be conducted within 60 days of the supreme court's s decision. anchor: before we move on, you have explained the process and the constitutional basis for this. do people trust the process, the courts, will they accept whatever the results are? >> well, they don't have an option but to accept. whether they agree with the decision or not, that is their prerogative. right now this will be the third time if we have petitions since the constitution was promulgated in 2010. the first election in 2013,

there were petitions, similarly in 2017, and now if we do have this this will be the time kenyans will have been visited by the scenario, so at the end of the day, the others will be happy with the decision, and there were those who will not be happy. as i said earlier, accept it, they have to, because that is with the constitution demands and prescribes. it is the prerogative of each and every kenyan and other people. anchor: assuming that the supreme court validates these results and everything goes through four william ruto, how does he plan to unite the country the numbers speak for themselves, almost an equal proportion of people who don't believe he is up to the job? >> i agree. one of the things we have to look at us a democracy with a

voting electorate is that it is not equally proportionate to the entire percentage of the nation, and therefore, we have a segment of people who are essentially doing that, but the president seeks national unity. their specific instruments and the constitution ratified him to be the president of the entire nation, so one of the opportunities has is to unite the country, and his campaign has likely been about unity. you realize that if you study that the maddox of his campaign, one of the things not pres prest because the unifying factor was about the social economic developer and of the people.

according to the constitution that grants kenyans the right to social and economic stability. so it wasn't about this or negative ethnicity, as we seen before, so already his campaign team is uniting the nation because the nation is in economic peril. the critical question is about inflation, critical questions about the tax regime that is extremely punitive, and the joblessness of millions of young people and millions of kenyans at the end of the day, we have just come from a pandemic, exiting and administration, the critical issues in terms of the quality and efficacy of government, so he has a lot of work to unite the country and get the country to realize his economic goals, and that is what he would do. before the elections were called , he called someone and had a

chat for about an hour and discussed ways to be able to have an inclusive government, whoever loses should concede, and they have worked with him before. he is a political player that has been in various positions in the government and knows his way around the political infrastructure and topography, and therefore he can navigate himself and establish the one kenyan notion under the banner of economic prosperity. there is no issue that is specific to a particular tribe. the issues in this country, whether socioeconomic, health, or any other issues are cuts across the board, so from the campaign, there is already united factor, and i think he has the responsibility going forward to unite the country based on issues and ideas rather than the concept of that policy. >> if this election has in fact

evolved, i guess is the word come from being about ethnicity or regional issues into these broader issues that affect all kenyans, are their chances that this may escalate into violence? that has been the concern, isn't it, looking back through history? there has been a concern that things could escalate into violence. >> looking back to history, it was a concern, but the point of concern happened yesterday. most of the tension was around the declaration of president, and the fact that has already happened and that's why we saw a little bit, a little bit of chaos. i would not call it conflict. it has not escalated to the extent that we should be concerned about. for many, they were going out to celebrate. for some, they were frustrated and did come out onto the streets, but there were some people taking advantage of the

situation, like we have already mentioned of living. there are no implement opportunities for young people, so a lot of crime happened last night, but i believe that now we have a way forward, the fact he did not agree with the results, and they have decided that, his supporters have a way forward. they will wait. that is one thing we have practiced, taking issues and petitioning them to the court and waiting for the judiciary to give us their opinion on it, and kenyans are good at that, so i think this was election we have managed well as a public and we will continue to wait and see on the way forward. anchor: correct me if i'm was nullified by the supreme court, citing irregularities, so how is this time different was similar? >> well, one thing i have to

mention is, and perhaps an argument with what dennis said earlier, in my opinion, i think the body this time around did put effort in ensuring it does conduct elections as prescribed upon notification of the 2017 presidential elections by the supreme court of kenya. that is why we have seen a lot of infusion of transparency, infusion of inclusion of other players. we have seen the appropriate use of technology, where the failure

rate was very low. i think it is less than 250 out that 46,000 plus, and we have seen the transmission of results digitally, available to a portal as the elections are prescribed. coming forth. that is right this time around you find that many people included in tallying and verifying the results, comparing what was announced, and at the end of the date can you look at this and consider it as very much as trying to conduct the

elections as was ordered by the supreme court, and this is in line with the constitution, because nullifying the elections in 2017, the supreme court of kenya actually bite off intents and purposes, ordered it to conduct an election as prescribed by the constitution, and i think this time around, despite some irregularities, which are expected, i mean this is a human endeavor was so certain irregularities will be expected, but at the end of the day, in my assessment, and up to now, yes, we wait to see what evidence but to my this has been minimal from a marginable, negligible in degree, and i do not see any substantial reason why it could

be held to fault to the extent that it held a credible and not free and fair election. anchor: ok. we mentioned earlier about the challenges facing the president-elect. talk to me about the state of the economy and what his plan actually is to address it. >> thank you. that is a vital question. that has been the premise of this cap pain -- campaign platform, that the country needs social-economic resuscitation, because kenya is faced with multiple economic issues. many of them on the mismanagement within the government's fear. even before we got to the pandemic, which made things worse, is that you know there

e where a raft of tax issues that came about that made the cost-of-living and commodities more expensive. when you look at food items, gas , and many other things including transport, they really hit the citizens of this country , and therefore also the question of joblessness. we had almost 7 million young people, kenyans, who have no job at all, and what it is that happen is our economy moved from almost 30% to almost about 90%. even if you graduate from the university, you have to start as a welder or selling something in the streets, of this country has major economic issues. we also have very expensive

external debt. the geordie of -- majority of payments, we are using that to pay our debt, so there are a raft of issues, especially economic-based, that he must deal with, and failure to do with many of these issues in fact, the political question was they go the way of sri lanka or not? so we have to deal with very expensive corruption in the government steers, and that's why he was talking about the question of instituting a quasijudicial commission, which if you look at transparency international, they say what kenya has done in the reforms, there is nothing much that has come from the fight against corruption comes on maybe they should go the way in terms of a public hearing, so here are a

raft of issues that he faces, but the key is the cost-of-living. the inability of kenyans to put even affordable food on the table, because if i give your first example, we are unable to get food on the table locally in the country. in germany, 50 kilograms of that was going for about 2900. today, it is 6900, and it is not available locally. many of the small and medium-size businesses were shut down. and the president had a subsidy program to be able to buy it nationally, which that has not worked, because of the issue of money. >> i hear what you're saying about the cost-of-living crisis. we are nearing the end of the program. i want to throw over to our

other guests, because your nonprofit works with youth political engagement in canyon yet -- and kenya. talked about the cost-of-living crisis, how hopeful our young people about the possibility of change in the future and the political establishment being able to offer them help? >> many of them did not participate in the selection because they do not believe that major change is going to happen. frankly a lot of them believe that a lot of the candidates are similar, but there has been a rise of young candidates entering politics. as many were kicked out during the zoning or political party primaries, but a number of them did sail through, so there is hope where young people are investing in other young people and leadership, but also those conversations around perhaps we need to change how we engage young people.

zambia and the election last year had a high majority of young people participating from but also because they have the option of online registration. it is not there yet. as much as the registrar of political parties, that is a platform pricking people to register, to join pardons online that is where we can start, because when we look at a political party engagement or membership, real, true membership young people are the minority members in our 85 political parties combined. anchor: we have to leave it there for time. thank you to all our guests. and thank you for watching. you can see the program in any time online and for further discussion, go to our facebook page. you can also join the conversation on twitter. from me and the whole team here in doha, goodbye for now. ♪

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