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    "id": 1217443,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caroli Omondi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, secondly, the idea of establishing the Office of Leader of Official Opposition is a misnomer. Since there is no opposition, we cannot have a leader of opposition in this House. We can only have the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party. As I said, there is constitutional logic – what the French call raison d'être . For all these systems, there is logic from the beginning to the end. What we are trying to do is to cut and paste things while we are still suffering from a hangover of the British Parliamentary System, which is not what we should be discussing now. So, let us make a choice, as Hon. Lang’at has said, to either go back to parliamentary system or make it pure like in the British System or we have a pure presidential system like we have it now, which is the American System. I am very suspicious that we want to institutionalise the role of leader of opposition. I see it being created as a preserve of some communities and I am very reluctant to support it. I do not support that proposal. There is a very simple solution. In the United States of America, if you vie for elections and you lose even by one vote..."
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