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    "id": 229318,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/229318/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for East African Community",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "It is important to let tribal Presidential candidates to run for the Presidency just like we can see it happen in the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). They have eight tribal representatives. When none of them gets 50 per cent of the votes cast, we shall have a run-off between the best two. That way, we shall have a President who is accepted nationally. This has been done in young democracies, like the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and it has worked very well. Small countries with as few as three million people, like Liberia, have also used this method. So, let us not kill this good idea. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my time is gone, but I would like to say something about education. It looks like there are some people in this country who want to use the issue of education to get easy votes for the Presidency. Free secondary education will be a wonderful thing, especially for the people of Ikolomani, but let us think about it. Having succeeded in implementing Free Primary Education, let us not just allocate money to Free Secondary Education when we need to spend that money to employ new teachers. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I beg to support."
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