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    "id": 270043,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/270043/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that The publication of Electoral Opinion Polls Bill be now read a Second Time. This is a Bill for an Act of Parliament to provide the manner for the publication of the electoral opinion polls and for the connected purposes. This Bill is born out of the reality that the publication of the results of electoral opinion polls greatly influences voters to vote in one way or the other. As such, there is need for a law to ensure that the electoral opinion polls are conducted in a scientific and transparent manner and all the relevant information disclosed to the public. I would like, before I go to the actual aspects of the Bill, to point out to Members that the only challenge that this Bill would be faced with is a question of the constitutional freedom of the media. I have consulted widely and also looked at the Constitution. I am advised and I have established that because of Section 35 which gives every citizen the right of access to information this, therefore, gives this Bill the position to demand for what it intends to demand."
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