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    "id": 1094714,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to this constitutional amendment Bill sponsored by Hon. Florence Mutua. At the outset, I want to support this amendment. When you say that we change the provision for party lists to be submitted 45 days before the general election to 21 days after the general election, what it means is that we open up the general election competition to everybody because those who have been put on the party lists more often than not do not participate in the general election. They wait to be nominated. Therefore, I think it is opening up the general election for people to compete. Out of those who compete, those who meet the criteria to be nominated should be nominated. The parties can then sit down and comfortably decide on the people they think should not be locked out of Parliament so that they can be nominated to come to Parliament. My friend, Hon. Sankok, was saying that nominations are reserved for even the minorities. We have minorities like the Elmolo people, who he mentioned. I have never seen an Elmolo being nominated to this House since independence."
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