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    "id": 1017356,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "When the President will be looking at this, he must consider the following; that under the same Constitution, Article 27(3), there is an outlaw of discrimination. People elect who they want. Secondly, once people are elected to Parliament, you cannot walk in to this Chamber and condition the Senator for Makueni to vote in a particular manner. Every Member has a right to vote. That is in parts 4 and 5 of Chapter 8 of the Constitution. In this House, Members vote according to their conscience and according to the issues before the House. Nobody can say go and vote in a particular manner. Thirdly, every citizen in this country has a right to make political choice. It is guaranteed in the Constitution. You cannot force them to make a choice in a particular manner. Madam Deputy Speaker, it is an act of universal suffrage under the Article 81(d) of the Constitution. When you go to the elections, people present themselves to the electorate and they are voted for. What we should be looking at - I want to encourage Sen. Omanga and those who are taking an activist approach to this issue that this is not about activism, it is about realism. How do we achieve the gender parity without throwing the country into turmoil? What the Chief Justice has done can easily create a serious crisis in the country."
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