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    "id": 1094850,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Rozaah Buyu",
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        "legal_name": "Rozaah Akinyi Buyu",
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    "content": "My good friend talked about the two thirds gender rule. We know that this Parliament has grappled with the two thirds gender rule for a long time, but it has not been successful. We know that the opposition has mainly come from Members who felt that we should do away with tokenism. If we do nominations after elections or provide the list after elections, we will pick Members who are best losers or who have garnered a certain percentage of votes to be included in Parliament. What this does is that when you nominate a strong person, she or he is able to learn the ropes of where she/he might not have succeeded and in the next contest win thereby breaching the gap between the male and female Members and help Parliament to achieve the two thirds gender rule. Somebody said that if we have the list given after the elections, we will be dealing with the issue of allegiance to parties. That is not what this Bill seeks to do. Whether you nominate a Member before election or after elections, whether that Member decides to be loyal to a party or not, does not depend on this Bill. That is a personal choice. I only wish that this Bill could have gone a step further and stipulated or specified that in the list of nominees that would come after the elections, the people who should first be considered are the vulnerable Members who have put their best foot forward and are best losers."
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