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    "id": 1479783,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to move that The Political Parties (Amendment) (No.2) Bill (Senate Bills No.26 of 2024) be now read a Second time. The Political Parties Amendment Bill, Bill No. 26, sorry, I had mentioned earlier that it is Bill No.2. It is the second one of quite several Political Parties Amendment Bill. There is one and two. However, in terms of its sequencing in the Senate, it is Bill No.26 of 2024. This Bill was published in the Kenya Gazette Supplement No. 96 of 2024, dated 7th of May, 2024. The principal object of this Bill is to amend the Political Parties Act of 2011 and replace the office of the Registrar of Political Parties with the Independent Political Parties Regulatory Commission. This Bill also seeks to delete any reference to a coalition political party in the Act. It also seeks to give effect to some of the recommendations and views of the public that were submitted during the NADCO process. This is one of the famous NADCO Bills where everybody knows the history of how we got to the NADCO process among many other Bills. We have since passed the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Bill and this is one of the three that are remaining before the Senate, including now, later on, a Constitutional Amendment Bill that is before the Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee (JLAHRC) of which you are a Member. As I have pointed out, this Bill seeks to replace the office of the Registrar of Political Parties with an Independent Commission of Registrar of Political Parties. You know very well that there has been contention about how independent the office of the Registrar of Political Parties is. Madam Temporary Speaker, somebody like you has served on two occasions which is a fete that is not known to any other Kenyan. The only secretary general who has delivered two ruling parties in subsequent elections is none other than yours truly. That is a serious decoration in terms of political contribution to the country. I know in 2017, you were secretary general of the Jubilee Alliance Party (JAB) which morphed into the Jubilee Coalition and in the last general election, you served as the secretary general of the ruling party, the United Democratic Alliance (UDA). Anybody that has been within the circles of political parties knows how crucial this office is. Sometimes the difference between keeping an official, losing an office, losing a party and not losing it, depends on the decisions that are made there at the political parties. A very powerful office, especially when you are getting near to election time. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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