military psence in iraq.e spoke on monday in najaf. >> we lcome all embassiethat do not interfere in iraq's internal affairs, so long as they do not interfere. we will have a diplomatic response or perhaps a popular one, which is suitable to the office. iraq is only for iraqis. amy: several iranian parties have questioned the early results, which show them losing a number of seats. we'll have more on the iraqi elections later in the broadcast. leaders of the g20 nations are holding a virtual meeting today to discuss ways to help address the growing humanitarian crisis in afghanistan. after the taliban seized power, the united states, imf, and world bank cut off funds to afghanistan, which is heavily reliant on foreign aid. the united nations estimates one million afghan children are at risk of starvation. on monday, u.n. secretary general antonio guterres urged the foreign community to address the crisis. >> right now with assets frozen, the economy is breaking down. banks are closing, and essential services

rights of the kurdish people in iraq. i've no idea of being realized . the preliminary results of the election showed up iraq can hold an election with the minimum amount of fraud and irregularities. while the focus is understandably on the elections right now, it must be understood that this outcome is expressly linked to the various factors that are destroying a syrians in iraq, hooting, a denial of real security, economic, marginalization and social exclusion. electoral reform is needed to ensure that minority representatives are actually representative of minority populations. i think i know to the different policies to prove the difference is to get to form any government government space privileges and today are you know, right, other minorities and also provide security. they blue p to the lack of people. so let me show a patio in the studio. hello, russia. hello, daphne and hello lou. way. good to have you here on the stream. i want you to greet international audience. russia. tell everybody who you are and what y

is iraq. ah. representatives of the taliban see they've wrapped up what they're calling positive talks with the us in cap in a statement. they said the full implementation of the bo, her agreement was considered to be the best way of resolving their problems. and the u. s. delegation stated they will give humanitarian assistance, the afghans providing facilities for organizations to deliver aid unaffected by political issues. they are now sitting down with a delegation from the european union. natasha gal name has more now from those talks indo. the afghan ministry of information characterized the to day talks as quote, positive and says, the hope is this will pay the way for recognition of this transitional afghan government, not only by the united states, but by the international community. the afghan delegation led by the acting foreign minister, came to doha, seeking international recognition and the much needed financial assistance that accompanies it. the country is in the midst of econo

what is next for iraq? what's next for her lack after 1st election since mass protest in a sentence fashioning? what would you say? what would you hope for the issues are still there and the next government, the face, a lot of challenges. there is high rate of poverty. there are a lot of school drop out call. good 19 with dealed with very weak because our health structure is very weak. people need tangible change in their life. and i am hopeful because of having 97 female elected. and i hope they'll be the voice, especially a woman. i'm sure that i see that russia, what is next for iraq in a sentence this, this would rely on the blocks and the alliances that are going to be performed within over the next weeks. that will give us a clear picture on whether the country is going to continue in this sort of political submission or whether there will be progress. what i can hope for is that this parliament realizes that change is possible and that protest can bring change . and maybe now that there is an opposit

iran became the dominant force in iraq and now you see the reign of terror going all the way across iraqlook at the election going on right now in iraq and all the turmoil, syria, yemen, lebanon. we totally destroyed that fine balance of power. but what undermined powell within the bush administration was vice president cheney and secretary of defense donald rumsfeld. president george w. bush surrounded himself with his father's friends, but he did not have the intellect to deal with his father'sriends. those neoconservatives were always undermining everything powell was trying to do, to include condoleezza rice. he was treating her like a daughter and she should have been supporting him, but she didn't. that is what politically forced owl to leave the administration. go ahead. . monte: you did mention this when talking about colin powell shattering, trailblazing, if you will, for the african-american community. do you think the former secretary of state was aware of all the doors he was opening for african-americans, because back then, nobody really talked about him being a trail blazer

tried for his crimes in iraq. general powell played a pivotal role in paving the way for the u.s. invasion. it was february 5, 2003 that powell addressed the united nations security council and made the case for a first strike on iraq. his message was clear. iraq possessed extremely daerous weapons of mass destruction and saddam hussein was trying to decei you and inspectors -- u.n. inspectors. >> the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents. let me take you inside that intelligence file and share with you what we know from eyewitness accounts. we have first-hand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails. the trucks and train cars are easily moved and are designed to evade detection by inspectors. in a matter of months, they can produce a quantity of biological poison equal to the entire amount that iraq claimed to have produced in the years prior to the gulf war. amy: all of colin powell's claims about weapons of mass destruction turned out to be false. he

m d in iraq, unequivocally. and then later retracting it essentially how much of a stain, if i can put it that way. does that leave on his diplomatic career, at least well, it was definitely a stain, and he himself admitted that this was quote, unquote of lot. on his record, he was someone that didn't want to involve the us in unnecessary military action. that was part of the pol doc powell doctrine. and that in any kind of military action necessitated public support and needed to ensure that it was in u. s. national interests. so at the time he was trying to advise bush not to go into iraq. he says, we know how to go into baghdad, but you're going to need to have some kind of plan for nation building and state building afterwards. and then we're not really prepared for that. so he had worn bush, many times about this, but his warnings went unheeded in as a result, he was set up to then defend us of what the u. s. was going to do in iraq in front of u. n. and by doing so, he really made the situation quite worse

they want to see a new iraq as an iraq where their vote really matters. i've talked to a lot of these kids, i was a protester myself, and they said, we don't have any faith in everything. the, those political parties do, they're trying their best. they're trying to know that they've changed the election law. so it's multi districts. there's, you know, what they call like a quad district for m p 's perk of per district. it's still not helping the same candidates are showing up and they're asking for the old prime ministers that we had the, you know, 1015 years ago to be reinstated. so what they're saying, the protesters are thing were fed up with all these 3 leaders, the president, the chairman, or that the head of parliament and the prime minister. all 3 have to be removed in order to bring a new generation, a new generation of politicians that will truly fight corruption. that will truly improve the economy that will truly improve the inner piece inner p, okay? between g as in sundays and the event, something very critical points. you were protested, but

after its 2003 invasion of iraq that overthrew saddam hussein.y forces and armed groups, some of whom are linked to incumbent political parties, killed more than 600 people, the faces of the victims imprinted on the flags and posters the protesters carry as they vow to stay the course. alaa al sattar is an engineering graduate and a key organizer. >> ( translated ): today we remember the martyrs who fell in this uprising and we remember the bloodshed that happened, while many demands have not been fulfilled. >> reporter: al sattar helped form one of the new parties that emerged from the protests. they want to abolish iraq's power-sharing system, which divides ministerial posts between shia, sunni and kurdish parties no matter how they did in the election and which is widely seen as fueling corruption and incompetence. in response to protesters' demands, elections are being held early, and there are now 83 districts up from 18. but al sattar says the new election law caters to the political establishment. >> ( translated ): the electoral districts

and then you can see a and iraq. and so it is, calculation was made by the united states as by the soviet union in the late 198 is this, you know, whatever the strategic value of it, maybe it isn't, was the normal blood and treasure involved in, in continuum, talking about it. but that doesn't mean that you give up on all the other ways, and i don't mean i don't think americans just going to give up in the middle east just like that. yeah. well that let me think it's, it's, it's still problematic. let me go to you for we end up part of the program here, but you know, we, we have, we can't discount the players on the ground. and there's a lot of chatter, a lot of the re reassessing on bed, blah bellows talking to each other. recalibrating what iran is in the mix and all that. i think we can talk all about what the u. s. and its allies want, but there's a lot of murmurings going on on the ground. and the dentist name is a psychological issue. they lost ok. they can be to beat it. ok. so i, that's one kind of boeing in

they know a lot about iraq and a lot about these recent elections. the comment section is live right now. jump into the comment section. also, question to be part of today show. let's look at the turn out in comparison to previous elections because people were beginning to read something into the turn out. anyway, let's, let's put up that cut out right now. and then we can look through and just see the difference between 2579 percent. that is in them. and then 2020. well, what am i saying that the way well, let's be realistic. democracy is something completely new to iraqis, post at least half a century of military rule and dictatorship. so this kind of like an instrument of kind of like a living let it be like in governance or social or stand up and so on. it's yet to be kind of like understood and implemented rightly in terms of like you turn out . i don't see any problem with the 41 percent. even if it's or even if it's lower, if i would compare it to, to the last election in the u. k that was 37 percent and i'm talking about a mature democracy. s

and, and journalist how go moving in iraq. so these are also points that people are concerned about. some use like to me are scared to speak up because they do not know what will happen to them in baghdad. i mean, other parts of iraq is very stable. so that people, there are really scared of speaking now because they, they have in their loved ones, their family and their friends go missing or dead. so this is also another factor that stops the youth from speaking up and from losing hope. for us says the focus of its talks with the taliban, him cats are, were security and terrorism concerns. the taliban says the 2 days of high level meetings were positive, the u. s. call them candid and professional. and while washington still refuses to recognize the taliban government, it's agreed to provide humanitarian aid directly to the afghan people. the taliban will now meet with a delegation from the european union. tens of thousands of people have rallied across poland, angry at a court ruling which said that parts of e u law are inco

and he never, never america to withdraw from iraq. so i think that america has, in, this is a huge amount of the decades in saudi arabia, the gulf states, and the middle east, and go straight to who they are, 5 points in the world. and so, if there is indeed a rivalry and you know, some sort of a cold war coming with china, then control all the go will be as important as strategic goal of the united states as it was during the cold war. an interesting case because of the american to say, you know, yes, they gave up on vietnam, cambodia and laos, but you know, they still go indonesia, malaysia, japan, which at that time at least as far as american perceptions. and so we're in danger of going to the communist. so say, you know, our intervention achieve goals that we prevented a whole say, big trip of communism in asia. so it wasn't probably just a matter of giving up on the american influence. let me to do both to be a 1st to patrick here. i can agree with both of you with the same time for different reasons. i think, i mean, i think, y

and i know there's 4 agenda, but in iraq, not the, but it's little than, than iraq in iraq. the foreign edge, the ablaze their big role, bigger than the internal agenda and a custodial lake. so the agenda of turkey agenda, agenda and criminal agenda that they, they blame. they play their big role even is corrupted. now with the corrupted are rising, the same slogan we are, are we going to reform? we want reform, we are trip to fight rotted, and even thus the corrupted and you know, all who i mean there, there, but these the major parties and then she on a sunday and, and accomplish an order that i think there's many of them that they're dissolved tomorrow will be an announcement may be or after to morrow, or are they waiting that parties that she about is or the could dish or the soon the a when they say this is in their interest or, and they will say they were so okay. it is right election, and if they see this is it's not and they'll say they will move mystery. i will see the iraqi, the blood shaped and the slides after next week. if they, it's not of interest. okay. we mu

let's see the future of iraq in another way, rather than to go to the weapon. ok, so now the other issue here, of course, is also the low turnout. as we said, we kind of thought as bronk has, has become, as the biggest winner as emerge is the biggest win win in parliament. but there is the issue of low turnout. how will that affect the legitimacy of these elected people? well, it's not legitimate. honestly speaking, we're talking about 70 percent of the people didn't go to the election. it show you how much people desperate from this political process. on another hand, it show you how much the burden, the challenge that on the shoulder of said to the southern and the others to have a successful executive government which, which is now doubt that it's not easy to have a successful executive government, especially with the problems that your rock has and especially on the economy, coal sector. so we need to manage the economy, coal sector with, with a very professional iraqi government and try also to many of the future of iraq in the, in the turning day. but i'm

the balls have closed avenue out in iraq. the falling machines are now going to issue the detailed reports with who won, who lost the turnout. void votes. later on there will be a manual vote in manuel county in order to compare the papers with the reports of the falling machine so that they'll be details report that is going to be issued by the electoral commission that the nina amelia to lift the law. the voting process was over at 6 p. m, and now we're getting results from the 2 devices, the verification device and the optical scan with god's will, we will distribute the results with multiple copies to the agents of the political entities. but voting system glitches on it. visibly for turn out, sure, iraq is aren't convinced the election will deliver the change. they want no matter who comes out on top. well, obviously the political, let's a choice. all the list of candidates hang was not sufficient. and i hope that the politicians, the political lead might draw the consequences found of this. the vote was held early in re

a key justification for the american invasion of iraq. it was a claim he later regretted your to his credit. ah, he was accountable. yeah. he, he admitted you know, his mistakes early or later. ah, that is not something that you we've heard across the bush national security team. on monday. bush issued a statement, pointing out the power was so respected, he earned the presidential medal of freedom twice. powell, a vietnam veteran serv. most of his life in the u. s. military before he entered politics, as the 1st african american secretary of state, he set an example for those who came after him. the senate april, the 1st black president, brock obama said powell never denied the role that res played in his own life. and to in our society more broadly, but he also refused to accept that race would limit his dreams. he has been my mentor for a number of years. i always make time for me and i can always go to them with what tough issues. colin powell served multiple republican presidents, but later in life endorsed democratic candidates for

we're joining the iraq. he election commission there, 83 constituencies, 18 provinces, 22000000 people registered to vote of that number. only 6000000 took part. that is 41 percent of potential voters. that is a record low. let's go back to events in baghdad was the, i'll have one that i didn't have are what is done with joey work in. i'm natal jamini as it does. we have went on get on it with them as the dark, lenient milan leaves in our morocco. 11 half bath fills. we've always received all the material from the year july like an electoral centers wide wayne in what way we're also received that we own forms. number 411 from that is either old province is. thank you very much. mila. in the name of god, the merciful and the compassionate. are they all okay, i'm relieving events in baghdad will take you to the un secretary general antonio terrace, asked the un headquarters in new york. he is talking about afghanistan less listenin to what's going on, left them, but alone. more than the city point 8000000 peop

that on the main issue in iraq is corruption. this is, this is the pillar of problems of besides corruption, the security situation. there is also a very big a. busy demand among the public, which is stopping the forwarding, meddling and get off the politics. and as we know, iraq is a place where several regional international players have real leguinn agenda and influence. so this is, this is the main, this is the main issue about this selection. however, is this selection going to end up with? read a me think these that's, this is, this is what people also the skeptic a lot while because they see that the blocks that are going to be ended parliament . i didn't really different from before and there is another issue which is the block stuck are going to be in depaul in pod and going to be able to have decisive decision decision on who is going to be the prime minister called the government. and this is going to add more to the influence on the lever to job and deduction on regional layers. however, nothing is going to be really

into a home with the top stories on al jazeera, 10 out was low and sundays parliamentary elections in iraq. the vote was supposed to be held next year, but was brought forward in response to mass anti government. protests. electoral commission is promising fantasy and transparency is ballots. all tallied early. results should start coming out later on monday and he has him reports from baghdad . the end of a long day in iraq, which so voters stricklut through pulling stations to elect a new parliament. what longer days may lay ahead does now be up to politicians and whoever boxed them outside iraq to agree on a new prime minister. the balls have closed everywhere. iraq, the falling machines are now going to issue the detailed report with who one who lost the turnout. void votes they got on. there will be a manual vote and manuel count in order to compare the papers with the reports of the falling machine so that they'll be a detailed report that is going to be issued by the electorate commission and the anna maria to live fella, the voting process was over at 6 pm and now we're getting res

some of the most destroyed places within iraq itself. now they have nothing to go back to this, no homes that they can return to. so they stay in this camp a lot. the camp management of said is actually the people they want. the rocky federal government wants to return back to their homes. are actually some of iraq's most vulnerable. similar numbers are repeated across displacement camps, housing, rockies. they are in effect, refugees in their own country. it's not known just how many people won't be able to vote, but it's clear that people are voicing their frustration with the government loudly . and whether it's the boycott, the vote movement, or people's inability to vote both unlikely to have an impact on the polls. that's bring in him, ron kon, now is life for us outside opposing station and about. so m, ron, we look to your package, danny, going to wonder how much, how people internally displaced people pinning on an election like this to turn around their devastated lives. well, before i answer that question, sammy, let me just 3

okay, it's our iraq. let's negotiate, let's talk into the, into the interest of iraq. well, now there is mounting tension among iraq's political rivals, who seemed to ignore the fact that nearly 60 percent of the population. why trotted that action on the actual jersey that the eas top brags that official says many custom checks between burson and northern island should be removed. northern ireland has a border which separates the you and the u. k. and there's growing frustration on both sides about how trade across the border should be controlled. on tuesday, the u. k is breaks that minutes, that talked of tearing up a protocol that's created checks on goods between great britain and northern ireland. the u. k says it will engage fully and constructively with the you, but it wants to see significant change. the european commission says the proposals offer unique opportunities for northern ireland with this robust package of practical imaginative solutions. we can continue to implement the protocol on the island northern ireland for the benefit of all communities on th

he's a political analyst in iraq alley welcome bye.

and so one of these was the 1st iraq war, and then you had later the 2nd iraq war during the 1st iraq war on the team with president george h. w bush. he was a, he was largely a hero of that along with other other general sort of looking at it and then pulling out us forces. when then later, the 2nd walk war came in after 911. and you know, the debate in 2003 doors, w bush brought him into that. and i think it's one of the most controversial moments in colon power life was being used to sell that war to sell that war to allies, to sell that war to the american public. because he had a very vol. there's one of the most trusted americans in the world, and i'm just interested if you ever talk with him deeply about that moment in which we now know. in hindsight, the material that he presented at the united nations was deeply flawed, deeply wrong that they've been duped. by a, an intelligent story. name, cur, ball i'd be interested in, and what your thoughts are about that, that i'm trying to figure out how this guy became such a pawn in that moment. well, let me go back just a little bit

military in places like iraq and afghanistan.an trying to help the u.s. -- i remember you were trying to help general petraeus at one point. is there moral or lessons for america at throwing money at the problem and hoping somehow it will get stability in afghanistan and instead getting massive amounts of corruption? >> yes, and i think there are two lessons to be learned. one is that it matters, the behavior of a government towards its own citizens. people were being robbed not only of the developmental resources that should be reaching them but they were also being robbed on a daily basis by every government official they encountered and they were losing their dignity as well as their money. that's what really matters. people start to get angry and then they go to extremes. and in the case of afghanistan, that meant the taliban. the second lesson is a harder one, i think, which is to say afghanistan really looks a lot like a mirror of us. i mean, i've heard afghanistan before the current tragedy, i've heard it called a failing

he argued for the invasion of iraq in 2003 before the un security council acts and iraq's behavior show that saddam hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction. the evidence for powells case turned out to be false. he accepted responsibility for helping to lead the country into what pow later called an unjustified war. since i deeply regret that the information, some of the information on all that some of the information i presented with from multi source was wrong. and it is a lot on my record. but yeah, i, there's nothing i can do to change that block over time pals, regret turned into disillusion with the republican party. he endorsed democratic presidential candidate brock obama in 2008. the visibility was far because of the inclusive nature of his campaign because he is reaching out all across america. he gave similar reasons for backing hillary clinton over donald trump in 2016, and did the same for joe biden in 2020 with joe biden in the white house. you will never doubt that he will stand with our friends and stand up to our ad

ah. bookings underway in iraq to elect a new parliament. the pull was brought forward in response to mass protests. nearly 25000000 people are eligible to cast a ballot. there are concerns many, it will stay away because of widespread apathy towards the political establishments . alhashan reports now from baghdad for some of the people heading to vote here and but that this election may not change much, but for the government and it's deeply divided political establishment. it's about legitimacy. the turnout will likely decide that. and that's why senior government officials and political leaders rushed to polling stations early in the morning to cast their votes, him and the som, jamie unadilla. i know we all have to contribute to change our reality. i want to tell a rockies that we still have time ahead of us to day. go out and vote change or reality for iraq and for the future. there are more than $3000.00 candidates running for the selection on the quarter of them are independent. this is another reason why some voters say they are skep

you've experienced iraq politics. how would you describe it from the inside? no repeating whatsoever shows mansion, but from an economic perspective in the air state patronage very much controls the economy. so everything here and iraq is in the state own state manager, state controls are which are very much it limits the possibility and, and the opportunities for private sector to flourish. m m m. ringback l i care, for example the, the, the, the government is the primary operator of everything was in a free market economy is when we could see the government's regulator, a policy maker and a tax collector. anything but a and operators or we don't like, for example, the united states produces more oil than iraq and saudi arabia put together. but they don't have a national oil company where in iraq, if we want to talk about, for example, privatization and introducing the market economy and so on. this is a big red line that we need to explain to the traditional mindset. that's it, very much controlling everything. well, if a young person said to you, i want to

speaking just moments after the polls closed the head of iraq's electoral commission.

the polls have closed everywhere in iraq. the falling machines are now going to issue the report with one who dos turns out. void votes that on there will be a man will vote a manuel count in order to compare the papers with the reports of the falling machine so that they'll be a detailed report that is going to be issued by the electoral commission. god and hannah. i'm a little fella, the voting process was over at 6 p. m. and now we're getting results from the 2 devices, the verification device and the optical scan with god's will, we will distribute the results with multiple copies to the agents of the political entities. but warping system glitches and visibly for turn out, sure, iraq is, are convinced the election will deliver the change, the want, no matter who comes out on top. well, obviously the political, let's a choice. all the list of candidates hung was not sufficient. and i hope that the politicians, the political elite might draw the consequences found of this. the vote was held early in response to mass protes

and this is related also to the iraq p. a political factions, al agency alliances with various a regional international players. so people want bad want to see back at different iraq without corruption. busy with more infrastructure, better management, and they are yet a consent that this is not what they're going to get. a good candidates are giving very high pharmacies, alley has some life as they're in baghdad. ali, thank you again a sounds taliban says he wants to turn a new page in his relationship with washington during the 1st face to face talks with us. officials in doha security was a key issue on the agenda, but aid evacuation flights and the rights of women were also discussed. the taliban ruled out cooperating with the u. s. in the fight against iceland, afghanistan. it follows a series of attacks including friday's bombing of a. she up mosque and condos that killed at least 60 people. natasha name has more on the talks in dela, the acting afghan foreign minister actually did make some comments on day one of wha

partial results indicate sadr has won iraq's vote. our correspondent in baghdad joins with the latest. promising news in the fight against covid. drugmaker merck seeking approval for its antiviral covid pill. a large study out of france shows vaccines rain highly effective. austria's new chancellor pledges to work very closely with his ousted predecessor. that has the opposition saying he is just a puppet. ♪ partial results from iraq's national elections show sadr's party was the big winner. it will be the second are just party in parliament. and second, the party of the former prime minister. sunday's vote was held several months early in response to mass protests in 2019. the good news, there was little violence. the bad news, record low turnout. for more, let's go live to baghdad. jack, we want to couch this by saying these are still partial results, but what stands out as significant? jack: i would like to put out a double disclaimer that they are partial results and they are coming from the election coission, it is worth commenti

and all that fell iraq.took us backwards. ♪ >> the streets of port-au-prince are uncharacteristically quiet after unions and organizations called a strike against haiti's dire security situation. if you taxi drivers drove through looking for customers. many say she is nash the spiraling economic crisis. the situation for many haitians has become harder since the assassination of the president in july followed by an earthquake that killed more than 2000 people in august. >> in all countries around the world, security is the first public good. that means that when you are in a country which has no social security, a gang forces you to move around. they kidnap you and rape your children. when we can't eat, it is an insecurity. i support the strike 100%. >> we stopped in relation to the economic situation in the country. in this country, nothing works. the population lives in a situation which can no longer live. we all have a problem that the children cannot go to school, gas problems, these problems take place

many thanks ali and body talking to us or political analysts out of iraq. the police in indian administered kashmir, say they've killed 2 rebels. they've linked. one of them's the murder of a taxi driver last week he was one of 7 civilians killed by gunman in separate attacks in recent weeks, elizabeth parent m has more now from new delhi soldiers conduct spot checks on the streets of sheena, the main city of indian administered kush mead, there is increased security in the region after government killed. 7 civilians including minority, hinders in one week. something that hasn't happened in years. it has, however, led to an all too familiar event that attention of hundreds of people accused of having links to band muslim organizations. when neither board america, it is the duty of security forces to instill confidence among minorities that they are safe in cash meet. as far as that is set concerned, those who have been detained have a criminal record, or links to militants and look at the common wants to make clear that no such thing will be tolerated. good

and see it as a lesson for iraq's political establishment. but so mr. larry jack, the electoral process and believe coated the election, they believe iraq's entire political system needs to change and are home up loc, shabby. how can we participate in an election sip by a political system? we want to remove charlotte. what can 9 position seats do among hundreds of other politicized members? by the turn out for sundays vote was 41 percent. the lowest of the 5 elections, the country has held since the 2003 u. s. led invasion. many blame this on the largest scale boycotting campaign. among other reasons, the election itself had to be moved up after demands from the train movement in missouri. yeah. it was originally scheduled for next year, but now the movement is a split between the boy cutters and those who are wanting engage in the political process. no doubt that we're l. g 0. in the city, a city, southern iraq al jazeera alley, hash m, is in baghdad. he has more now and why some political parties are rejecting the results. there is a blend of reasons