{"id":1515668,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1515668/?format=json","text_counter":286,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mandera North, UDM","speaker_title":"Hon. Major (Rtd.) Abdullahi Sheikh Bashir","speaker":null,"content":"There is what we call pre-election pact and post-election pact. For UDM, of which I am a member, we had a pre-election pact with Azimio la Umoja–One Kenya Coalition Party. After the elections, we had a post-election pact with the Kenya Kwanza Coalition. It is allowed. It is provided for in the statutes. If as UDM we decided that we have a relationship and are working with the Kenya Kwanza Coalition, no one can stop our interaction. There is freedom of association and freedom of speech."}