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    "id": 1515756,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Makali Mulu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. This is my input on this issue. Everybody who sits in this House swore to defend and protect the Constitution. As it is, the courts have given a ruling and I have not seen anybody in this House table a stay order to say that things should be as they should be. Unless that has happened, the House has no choice but to respect the ruling of the courts. At the time we joined this House, there were pre-election coalition agreements which had been signed. On the basis of those pre- election coalition agreements, Azimio was declared the Majority Party. The way forward is if there are post-election coalition agreements which have been signed or formalised, they just need to be tabled and it will make it easy for you to make a ruling. But even as you make a ruling, the composition of committees and slots to the IEBC were determined on the basis of Majority and Minority parties. Therefore, it will have implications. Hon. Speaker, the sooner you do this, the better for the House. This will enable us know how we will reorganise the committees because, in a situation where Kenya Kwanza was the Majority and now are the Minority, it means that we have to restructure the committees by reducing the numbers. This is not a simple matter as we are treating it. We need to take this seriously and the starting point is to know whether we have post-election coalition agreements The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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