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    "id": 166373,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. C. Kilonzo",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Mutavi Kilonzo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance obviously falls under the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs. It was signed in January 2007, three years before we got the new Constitution. So, obviously, the Government was holding this document. But one would understand why the Government is not very keen on ratifying that treaty. If you look at the principles of this Charter, some of them say: “Respect for human rights and democratic principles”, something which has been a challenge to this Government. Another one is holding of regular, transparent, free and fair elections. Having known that this particular Charter was signed during the year of elections and, maybe, the Government was not comfortable, they never ratified it. Another principle is promotion of gender equality in public and private institutions. You have just seen the last nominations where the issue of gender was ignored."
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