job kraddick since the entire opera house it's a point to buy the military so we can not go to florence louie who is in china my for us florence is reset eighty percent turnout possibly there must be so much anticipation what happens next. well the votes are being counted now local media are already reporting on official results we're expecting the election commission to hold a press any minute now where they will also be announcing on official results now they've got about sixty days to make the an official announcement on the final results and they say they will take up to a few they will take a few weeks to do this because they need time to investigate. the complaints that the election commission has received today with regards to how voting went down when they made a when they gave a press conference they reported that there were some minor. electoral irregularities including some early votes that failed to arrive back in time and on time which means they won't be counted but overall we can expect final results to be announced only in the next few weeks now in katine does have declined to

women say they believe they were participating in a reality television show let's go live now to florence louie she's at the courthouse just outside kuala lumpur also florence this case is not going the way the defense hoped what do they have to say about that. well her defense defense lawyer said he was extremely disappointed he said this was unfair to dawn just days ago the charges prosecutors have drawn charges against one of her koa choose the indonesian national city and city was able to walk out of this court a free woman now and prosecutors then did not say why they were withdrawing charges against city but we've since learned that the indonesian government had been lobbying the malaysian government the indonesian embassy released correspondence between the indonesian government and the malaysian attorney general where the indonesian government had not just not only stressed that they believed in cities innocence but they also said that she had been quote used as an intelligence tool of north korea unquote down since then the vietnamese government have been trying to do the same for it c

hundred seat house of representatives while the senate is appointed by the military let's go now to florence louie in chiang may's so florence you're in an opposition stronghold do people think the electoral system is going to give everyone a fair chance. well this election has already been described by democracy activists as an election that is neither free nor fair and this is because the military government during its time in power in the last five years has already changed the constitution in a way that gives it an inbuilt advantage. the military has the power to appoint the entire upper house that's up to a third of the legislature who will then have the power to select the prime minister not only that it's put in place an electoral process that essentially caps the number of seats that a party can win that will cook a poet type party the main opposition to the military aligned parties at a disadvantage despite that they will perhaps because of that people are still going to turn out to vote early voting is any indication now early voting that took place last week we saw a huge turnout rate o

in court today with her lawyers trying to prove that she is innocent or flores thanks for that florence louie lived there in shah alam. jiri n a president abdelaziz bouteflika is reportedly back home from switzerland where he'd been getting medical treatment state t.v. said his plane landed at a military base south of the capital algiers the demonstrators were back out on the streets demanding he dropped his plan to run for a fifth term as sonia gago after a two week stay at a swiss hospital abilities beautifully was apparently back in algeria according to a statement from his office pictures an algerian t.v. showing what is reportedly the president's motorcade driving from the airport this is perhaps the most challenging episode in beautifully twenty year rule a seismic moment in the country's recent history with little sign of diminishing if algeria is authorities still closing the universities early would stop the protests it would appear to have been a miscalculation we are protesting against a fifth president a president who to be enough is enough in a country desperate for jobs anger at