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    "id": 266921,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/266921/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Baiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "Section 82(1), Parliament shall enact legislation to provide for:- (a) Delimitation by the IEBC of electoral units for election of Members of Parliament and County Assemblies. Similarly, Article 85(5) sets out the Constitutional basis of the function of the IEBC as follows:- The Commission shall exercise its powers and perform its functions in accordance with this Constitution and national legislation. The Fifth Schedule of the IEB Act, 2011, sets the legal provision regulating the completion by the IEBC of the first review. The IEBC is enjoined by the Act to resolve all the issues arising out of the first review relating to the delimitation of boundaries of constituencies and wards, and publish its final report within the period of four months from the date of its appointment under this Act. The Act reads the issues arising out of the first review as:- (a) Redistribute such wards or administrative units in the affected constituencies, as maybe appropriate. (b) Subject to the constitution addressing issues of new constituencies falling outside the population quota as provided by Article 89(6) of the Constitution, but at the same ensure that such a process shall:- (i) Take into account the provision of Article 89(7(B) of the Constitution that requires progressive efforts and not instant demographic equality, or towards attaining the population quota in each constituency and ward for the purpose of the first review (ii) Not be subject to new definition of urban areas, cities or sparsely populated areas, or to new population figures. (iii) Be subject to the use of enumerated national census figure and not projected figures, and C. Addressing the issues of progressively advancing towards the population quota, in protected constituencies, in relation to neighbouring constituencies where appropriate."
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