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    "id": 1240720,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1240720/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "During yesterday’s afternoon Sitting, the Leader of the Minority Party submitted that the Speaker should not be seen as interfering with the manner in which a parliamentary party elects to organise its affairs. I cannot agree more and I have no intention of interfering with any party. Indeed, this is the accepted practice, particularly in the Commonwealth. An examination of precedents from parliaments in comparative jurisdictions lends itself to the adoption of a delicate approach in resolving internal party matters in the chamber of the House. In New Zealand, the arrangements for the appointment of whips are internal matters for the respective parties to determine on condition that the Speaker is advised of the appointment of whips. This is from the Parliament of New Zealand, Standing Order 35(1)(b). Similarly, in South Africa, the National Assembly of South Africa was recently confronted with a leadership and decision-making dispute in the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania Party (PAC). In the matter, PAC had one seat in the National Assembly, which was filled by the nomination of Hon. Mzwanele Nyhontso who had already been sworn in as the party’s representative in the House."
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