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    "id": 1494687,
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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": "they feel that you can represent them. It was the feeling of Kenyans, and the courts have finally agreed with them, so we do not need to push this point further. With regard to Members of a County Assembly (MCA) and Members of Parliament, Kenyans want to elect their own. The Bible says to each their own. If they feel that they want to elect a fellow who perhaps does not meet what we would know as at least a basic standard of a competent person to legislate and represent them, as I have said, we are only humble servants of the people. Therefore, we will allow them to have it as they wish. Clause 14 of the Bill proposes to amend Section 27 by inserting a new subsection to provide that “a coalition party shall within 14 days of registration submit to IEBC a copy of its nomination rules certified by the Registrar of Political Parties.” Remember this issue of the coalition party. We argued here on the Floor of this House about coalition political parties and the same. I am sure after the election, Sen. Omogeni has since changed his views as opposed to what he had then because of their challenges in trying to run as a coalition political party. You remember the debate that was here. However, at that time, you are like me. What you accuse me of being nowadays is what you were at that particular time. Clause 15 of the Bill proposes to amend Section 31, which provides for the nomination of political party candidates, by deleting subsection 2(b),(c),(e) and (f), which provides that – “The IEBC shall, upon the request of a political party, conduct and supervise nomination of candidates by the political party for presidential, parliamentary or county elections in accordance with Article 88 of the Constitution.” It is just our feeling that there can be a time when political parties will have matured to the level of allowing the IEBC to conduct nominations for them. Who knows? If we were able to agree at the political party's level, we could actually end up making it mandatory for all our political parties to do this. Nonetheless, it is a decision of the political party, a right that you may not want to take away from them. However, we wanted to provide it in law so that if a political party feels that they do not have the internal capacity to conduct a nomination process, then they let it go to IEBC. Of course, I know it will be a costly affair. I know this because I have run for the nomination and participated in the management of the nomination of a political party, the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), that conducted nomination exercises in about 40 counties. This is an expensive affair. Part B is you submit to the IEBC the names of the person contesting the party primaries and the date of the party primaries for publication of this information in the Gazette Notice. You require also that the Parliament shall appropriate monies for the effective implementation of the section. What that means basically is that the Kenyan public will fund this exercise because they belong to these political parties. The only challenge is that we have provided the resources, but we have not made it mandatory for the political party to carry out its primary using the IEBC. So, the funds will be there, but the political party will decide whether to use IEBC or not. 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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