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    "id": 108253,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- That, pursuant to the provisions of section 33 (4) of the Constitution of Kenya Review Act, 2008, this House approves the Draft Constitution submitted by the Committee of Experts and laid on the table of the House on Tuesday 2nd March, 2010 subject to amendments of Article 138(4)(b) by deleting the words “more than half” and substituting therefore the words “at least two-thirds.” The intention of this amendment is to ensure that the 47 counties envisaged in this Constitution have equal access in terms of being relevant; in terms of who becomes the next President of this country. Under the current Constitution, of the eight Provinces, a Presidential candidate must garner at least 25 per cent of five Provinces. What this amendment intends to achieve is to maintain the same threshold, so that if a President is to be elected, he is elected by a majority of the counties in this country. My suggestion is that we raise the number from 23 to 30 counties, so that counties in sparsely populated areas in the country become as relevant as those in highly populated areas. Therefore, this is for the benefit of the country because what we intend to do is to give the country a very powerful President. Therefore, we must ensure that the President has a national appeal in order to carry the country across."
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