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    "id": 1203456,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1203456/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, MCCP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mwengi Mutuse",
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    "content": "I will also table before this House another letter that we wrote to the Registrar of Political Parties on 27th April 2022, in which we communicated the decision of the party to be removed from Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Alliance. Instead, the Registrar told us that she was under instructions from above, as it were, that we could not exercise our democratic rights to move out of the Azimio la Umoja- One Kenya Alliance. Owing to that, therefore, it is not factual as it has been insinuated that MCCP under which the Member for Machakos and I are elected moved out of Azimio Coalition after the elections because the facts speak against that. Again, after the elections, and noticing that the majority and minority determine how allocation of committees and leadership in this House is to be determined, we wrote a letter to you, Hon. Speaker, on 26th September 2022, which was received in your office on 29th September 2022, in which we restated that we, the two elected members, will be associated with Kenya Kwanza Coalition. I will also table that letter so that it goes on record. In the letter, we enumerated the circumstances under which our party was forced and coerced to join the Azimio Coalition. We stated that the circumstances under which we were coerced to join could not legally stand. Therefore, we wish our numbers to be counted under Kenya Kwanza Coalition. The question that you would be answering is: when I stand here as a Member of Parliament and say I want to be counted under Kenya Kwanza, can somebody else force me to be in another coalition that I do not want? Do I not have a right, under the Constitution, to decide where I want to be?"
}