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    "id": 1158722,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "It seemed unfair that first of all, people were almost being stopped from moving from one political party to another after the nominations, but you can become an independent candidate. Also, it seemed unfair for people who really put a lot of effort into the election and the people they beat in a nomination come back to challenge them as independent candidates. It does not look fair and I think that is why the IEBC, as part of tidying up, requested that we need to synchronise those two dates, so that what is good for the goose is also good for the ganders. If you chose to be independent, do it abinitio. I f you chose to be a party sponsored candidate, do so at the beginning. Those two processes should take place simultaneously within May rather than what we are doing within April and others have an advantage of having to do it in May when they have the advantage on the ground and what is happening. It does not look like fair play. So, there is an amendment in Article 16 which hopes to tidy out realistically and I think that is what we need to think. We had delays in the publications and in processing of the Bill. By the time we pass these through the Senate, I’m sure the nominations would have taken place. So, this clause may not work for the 2022 Elections. I want the House to have it in mind that we are doing it for posterity. If we believe that that is the future of elections and that is how it should be, then we should not limit ourselves who are here and say that it will affect us. It will not because we are already on, first tomorrow, and by the time some parties have already done nominations, others are doing from next week. Completion will be by 22nd and certainly, this would not affect because parties have already done and the IEBC is not going to revise its schedule for nominations because of this. So, this is for the 2027 elections in all probabilities. I do not really need to go through other parts because that was a fundamental thing that I just wanted to highlight to the House, so that as we make decisions, we make them with full disclosure. It is open for debate and Members are at liberty to express themselves on what they feel about that. It is futuristic rather than for now. The rest is like I had indicated yesterday. It is a very simple Bill. Very straight forward and I look forward to the support of Members. We are already late in processing of this Bill because it will be good that by the time people are going for elections, they know the operating law guiding the elections. Like I said, a number of the clauses here are more of nomenclature. It The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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