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    "content": "We have seen how this country has been run. Parties have leaders. Parties have people who speak for them. You cannot tell me today that the leaders of the Majority Party and Minority Party who sit here make their parties move. There are people out there who leave these parties and who after elections, lose their voices. What is being planned by this proposed amendment is to ensure that those who hold the highest positions in their parties, the WDM-K, ODM, Jubilee or whichever party, will still have their voices after elections. They do not lose their voices as Members of Parliament but by providing an office situation, the opposition is always the alternative Government. If we have an alternative Government that cannot be organised, have no office and cannot be traced, it then becomes difficult to organise. So, we want to be able to have a responsible opposition that can be held to account. I believe that even the opposition must be held to account. We were all elected. We are all being supported by the taxpayers’ money, and we must be able to know what they are doing and how they are doing it. You can only do so if you know where they are, if you fund them, and are able to know what they are doing to ensure they are doing their work rightly. Therefore, it does not matter whether the proposals were done through the BBI, Uhuru, Raila or whoever it is. What is right is right. It does not matter who says it. It is right to have a good opposition. It is good to have a country where critique is legalised and institutionalised. This proposal by the President proposes that we institutionalise the opposition and ensure we have a way of making those who go to elections and do not win at a national level operate in the public space. I beseech Members here, let us not look at these things. I do not think we are going to be here forever. If you serve for two or three terms, you will feel tired and already want to go. Someone else will come in. 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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