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    "content": "In considering the matter of the two letters of designation, we need to address one fundamental question that is at the root of the present controversy. Once it is agreed that the proper authority to designate the Leader of Government Business has always been, and under the new Standing Orders remains, the Executive, the question we must address is whether the changes made in the Constitution with the introduction in it of the provisions of the National Accord and Reconciliation Act have any bearing on how the Executive should make the decision. There are three possible answers to that question. One option is to take the view that nothing in our constitutional dispensation has changed; that decision-making before and after the Coalition Government is the same; that the Executive shall make the designation the way it has always done and, therefore, the Speaker should receive and accept a designation of the Leader of Government Business if it accords with the practice and traditions of the House, and should reject any representations that do not accord with that practice. Section 23, which deals with the executive authority of the Government of Kenya, and which was cited in the contributions that hon. Members made, and Section 24 of the Constitution, which, as hon. Members will recollect, deals with the constitution and"
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