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    "id": 1203538,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, I want to thank the people of Dagoretti North and to congratulate you. I want to say in two words that indeed if we knew the majority coalition today, we would not be debating. If it was Kenya Kwanza, we would not be debating. Because we do not know and they know very well they do not have the numbers, we have come here now to ask for your wisdom, in terms of how we will move on in this House. Having said that, it was very clear after the elections that the Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Coalition was the majority. The reasons it remained as a corporate coalition was for purposes of knowing very well that you are supposed to come in the House to form the committees and the majority of this House. The Constitution is also very clear that indeed you can have an Executive without the legislative arm. Therefore, there are two things that you will look at. We have parties that have gone to court. They are part of those agreements. We must ask ourselves whether they knew that this House would not give them the agreements that they wanted. That is why they went to court. So, we cannot come here again, wait and give them the right in this House, when they knew very well that they wanted to go to court to have their rights there. As we move on, there is the second thing that we have to ask ourselves. Do they have a right to move to any coalition that they wish? Indeed, it is important for posterity to know which side was the majority and which one was the minority during the 13th Parliament. Ensure in your ruling that we will respect the rules and the Political Parties Act that you gave us. If you knew that it was a bad law, you would have rushed to court even before we went to the elections, the way we did in the 11th Parliament when we were pouring water on the Security Laws (Amendment) Bill. It is the same thing. I therefore urge that we move on first then come back in November and discuss this matter again."
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