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    "id": 185597,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Murungi",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Energy",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 93,
        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": ". I am sure that none of the Members of Parliament here has been able to visit every village in his or her constituency. We are now on live coverage. If you say that you have covered your constituency, when they know that their village has not been attended to, they will be waiting for you in the next elections. I am one of those hon. Members who has not had time to visit all the villages in my constituency to receive ujumbe from them. So, I need this break to go and consult with them. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have a very important matter pending before us which affect us as Members of Parliament, namely, the Political Parties. According to the Political Parties Act, as we sit in this House, all our parties are on provisional registration. We have up to the end of the year to regularise the affairs in our political parties, so that we can have full registration, under the Political Parties Act. We do not have much time. We need the months of August and September to go back and create party machinery, party structures and party leadership across the country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the requirements of the Political Parties Act are really onerous. They intend to convert the \"briefcase\" political parties that some of us have to full political parties. Therefore, it is in our own interest that we support this Motion, so that we can comply with the requirements of the Political Parties Act. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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