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    "id": 1259230,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1259230/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Membership of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) is made of Members of Parliament (MPs) elected from various partner States. The PAP has 250 Members, five each from of the 50 partner States. The representatives are elected as it was done here. So, it is MPs who elect them. However, there is a new proposal that is looking for a new approach, so that PAP Members do not necessarily have to come from Parliament but have them elected through universal suffrage. That is something under discussion right now. It is a proposal that is supposed to adopt the European Union (EU) approach, where people are elected to Parliament and others are elected to the regional Parliament. Therefore, at that stage, PAP Members will not come from the House. However, as I said, it is still under discussion. How does PAP operate? It has a Plenary as we have here. There is a Bureau which is composed of the leadership, including the President of the Parliament. They do not call theirs Mr. Speaker, Sir. He is called Your Excellency, the President. So, it is the President and four Vice-Presidents. The President and Vice-Presidents come from different regions and they occupy the seats in a rotational basis."
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