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    "id": 24368,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, the spirit of these special seats is that they are not based on one person one vote. The system is proportional representation. You should have your potential Members of Parliament or nominees well before. It is not a list that you provide post election, so that the party members also feel represented. That is why in the ANC, they have a list according to seniority and they give as many as there are seats. So, when it comes to allocating seats, they just go back to that list which is based on proportional representation. This idea is brought in to make sure that political parties do not, after the elections, begin to sell seats, for example. After the election, you may now be waving and saying that: “We have 12 seats here, if you pay Kshs1 million per seat, you are going to get a nomination”. But in order to make sure that you deal with that mischief, you have a list in advance, which is registered with the Electoral Commission. This is the most sensible thing to do. It happens everywhere where the principle of proportional representation is used. Hon. Mbadi is quite right. Like in South Africa, the ANC nearly won all the seats. So, you do not go back again to an exercise which you should have done before the elections. I think it is a good point to do it this way."
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