frustration rising poverty and inflation is fueling a strong challenge from the opposition coalition. marissa lauren sue is an africa political analyst at the consultancy control risks. she says the action would likely come down to the goal is economic circumstances gone through quite a tough time in the past 6 to 8 years. so in 2015, it entered into a recession. which would last for 6 years. and then of course, already being in a recession, it was hit very hard by the code, 900 demick, especially when oil price oil price crashed and april 2020. given that it's, that's a major revenue earning. and those, you know, really had an impact on socio economic conditions that were not that good to begin with. i think that's definitely contributions to a sense of disillusionment with the ruling party. the other thing is that when president finance, who took over in 2017, there was a kind of renewed optimism in the country that perhaps he would open up the great civil society space that he was whole local elections that, you know, perhaps the board was broader macro economic stability that might start to tric

i'd like to start with you marissa lauren, so, so as we've been saying, polling so far as showed that the n p l a is out ahead. we are waiting for the total vote count the announcements. do you think though that this is a done deal, the m p l a will retain power? it seems to be, although of course you need it has already indicated that it will challenge that. it will result once it is finalized, especially because it does look like the m p n a will come out with a 50 plus one majority, which would allow it to retain as parliamentary mon majority and then very easily install incumbent president lorenzo, for a 2nd term since the a 3rd of the result to announce last night, the gap has closed between the p a n janita. so the pennies got about 52 percent at the moment and you need to training was about 44 percent. it's close, but what the vote all this at the end of counting, it would mean that you need to is unlikely to catch up to the m p l a. to come up with the most votes on top at this point. ok, jose a comment pretoria, as we heard there from merisa, the opposition is disputing the r