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    "id": 1203190,
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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I will endeavour to do so in the 15 minutes. Hon. Speaker, the question that you are being called upon to make a decision on is well grounded in Article 108 of the Constitution that establishes the Office of the Leader of the Majority Party. The same is replicated in Standing Order 19. Allow me to quote Article 108 of the Constitution, which provides that there shall be a Leader of the Majority Party and a Leader of the Minority party. It goes on to state that the Leader of the Majority Party shall be the person who is the leader in the National Assembly of the largest party or coalition of parties, and that the leader of the Minority Party shall be the person who is the leader of the second-largest party or coalition of political parties. Hon. Speaker, the question that is before this House is to simply determine which is the largest coalition of political parties or the largest political party and that party must be a parliamentary political party as stipulated in Standing Order 20A. You have said, in your Communication, that you received a letter dated 21st September 2022 from Hon. Junet Mohamed, who wrote on behalf of the Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Coalition Party. It is worth noting that as you communicated, you also indicated that Hon. Osoro and myself wrote to you communicating the decision of Kenya Kwanza Coalition to elect us leaders of our Coalition. You will note from your own Communication that while we attached minutes stating the place, time and attendees of our parliamentary group meeting, the letter by Hon. Junet Mohamed has neither the place and time nor the attendees of that meeting. This is important because we are a House of procedures. Such letters should have indicated who the attendees were. The question before you is on the constitution of either the Kenya Kwanza Coalition of political parties in this House as parliamentary political parties or if Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Coalition Party exists as a coalition of political parties. It is my humble submission that those of us who were in this House during the 12th Parliament remember the animated debate that we had as we amended the Political Parties Act through the Political Parties (Amendment) Bill. It was a very chaotic debate. I remember many of us vehemently opposed many of the amendments that were proposed. Top among them was the creation of an amorphous or a mongrel sort of thing that was called the “coalition political party”. Hon. Speaker what you are being asked to decide on today is anchored in the amendments that we made during the 12th Parliament to our political parties. The chaos we witness in this House today in terms of management of our political parties emanates from the passage of the amendments to the Political Parties (Amendment) Bill in the last Parliament. Particular amendments created certain definitions. Section 10 of the Act defines what a Coalition Political Party is. A political party is said to be..."
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