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    "id": 1032007,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1032007/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kang’ata",
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        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "parties; the Jubilee Party and the NASA Coalition. That is not good to me for the growth of the small political parties. Proportional systems usually tend to create incentives for small parties to grow and prosper because it does away with the concept of the lost votes. For instance, all the people who vote for the Jubilee Party in Kisumu, their votes do not count in so far as parliamentary positions are concerned. Similarly, the people who vote for a candidate in the NASA Coalition vying in Murang’a County, their votes do not count because their candidate does not win. The proportional system is good because all the votes count. All the votes are used to prepare or take into account the proportional votes that are going to be used to assign seats in Parliament. Such a system gives all the incentives to have small political parties. If that is implemented, we will have a Parliament full of so many political parties, which will then form a coalition. The government often tends to be a coalition. That way, governance is through consensus as opposed to the current situation where one political party can form the entire government to the exclusion of everyone. We all know that the proportional system has demerits such as Members of Parliament who enter through the proportional representation system do not have local connections. When you do not have local connections---"
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