circles you can of course run for a seat in parliament actually around sixteen percent of the candidates are female and sixty eight seats are over two hundred forty seats are reserved for women ok it's not just women there a lot of young people women and men who are getting involved in this election to understand yes recently i spoke to the independent election commission in afghanistan and they told me that they don't have exact numbers but they estimated around. sixty to sixty five percent of the candidates are below the age of forty so this is a record number and of course i mean afghanistan is one of the youngest countries in the world i think is the second youngest country in the world so of course they need people who represent them and there's a lot of hope for these young candidates even though there's all the corruption and yeah but there's this hope for them what about the hope for afghanistan's future i mean this is this election going to give people a sense of of change or