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    "id": 199127,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sungu",
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        "legal_name": "Gor Eric Sungu",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we adopt the Memorandum by the President and as we have now defined a new meaning to corporate membership to political parties, I wish to draw your 4558 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 17, 2007 attention to the fact that Section 5(3)(a) of the Constitution may well come into play because it says that whenever Parliament is dissolved, an election of a President shall be held at the ensuing general election and at that election, each political party taking part in the general election, shall nominate one candidate for President in such a manner as will be described under an Act of Parliament. My concern is that now there are so many corporate members. Will they be fielding candidates like other candidates? Will they be forced by the Constitution to field a presidential candidate? This corporate membership of political parties in one political coalition would imply that the many political parties, as referred to in the Constitution, will have a right or must actually have a presidential candidate."
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