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    "id": 1161296,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "The report is submitted not to registrar of political parties but to the commission which is the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). I saw that requirement being very tedious. If you own a political party but because of the realignment that we have currently, you do not end sponsoring any candidate the Act still requires you to submit a monthly report. This is the point I wanted to clarify. I hope that my colleagues will support this so that it can become neat. I thank my colleagues because they reiterated the point that I raised earlier, on the importance of creating a level playing field when it comes to all the candidates in this country. There are people who are born out of wealth and others who are struggling to make a living but can make good leaders. In other democracies like in the United States of America, if you a presidential candidate, if you get a donation of USD$250 it is matched dollar to dollar. We need to be more progressive when it comes to the issue of financing for an election. I would hope that in future so long as you are nominated the party that you belong to end up funding all the activities. Currently, people pay political parties for you to be nominated. There are those who do not go through nominations and you will see political parties end up making a lot of money. That does not really help out. I hope that my colleagues will support these amendments and that in the next election because it will be too late for them to manage this election. If you read the Elections Campaign Act and go back to the tough regulations and guidelines that the IEBC gave when it come to financing at this particular time, it will be too late because there are timelines. We want to remove the timelines and make it possible for future elections for anyone to carry out a campaign, receive the little money they can and go out there and seek the mandate. I will take the comments which were made by my dear brother Sen. Khaniri seriously and see how we can tweak that at the Committee stage amendments to see how it can be in line. The issue of accountability is important. I beg to reply."
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