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"content": "No! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, please, protect me. I think we have to agree that when you hold a Harambee in Garsen High School, the people who benefit ultimately are the students and parents of that school. Although the CDF is there, there are many things that it cannot do. If we say that we will rely on the CDF, we will be giving the sitting MPs unfair advantage over other people. I think this time, first, we need to agree when the election will be held. It seems all of us will be disqualified. We need to agree that, if the elections will be held next year in August, 2012, when will Harambees stop? We need to come out very clearly because, in my opinion, I propose that this time period should be reduced. We should have Harambees held three months before the general election. We should either have it that way or abolish the Harambees all together. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wanted to congratulate the Minister very much on Clause 32, which makes is impossible--- It is a legislation that, for the first time, says: If you participate in the selection process of, for example, NARC (K) as a political party, and you are defeated there, you cannot, under any circumstances, go to another political party and seek nomination there. This is one step towards bringing discipline into the political parties and I hope this law will be applied to the letter. I also believe that some of the by-elections that took place recently could not have taken place if this law was already in place. I want to thank the Minister for this provision. There is another hot potato that I wanted to ask the Minister to reconsider. If you look at Clause 35 that basically deals with nominations of party lists, I wanted to ask the Minister to consider deleting Sub-clause 9. The Minister may want to respond to this in future when he takes the Floor. We will be presenting presidential candidates from our political parties. We are saying these presidential candidates will not be in the party list. Why are we saying so? I know the hon. Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs is in the race. He will be busy running around the country. I also know Mr. Wetangula, Mr. Kingi and others will be in the race. If they will be busy running around the country, why is it that we are saying their political parties should not put them number one on their list of nomination? If someone is a national leader, I think he should not even be defending his small seats. If I am running for the presidency, why should all my time be spent in Garsen trying to fight some little political wars there when I ought to be running across the country? I think this is not a good one. All of us remember in history when Mrs. Ngilu was running as a presidential candidate on SDP ticket, how the KANU Government tried to mistreat her. They directed so much effort down to her Kitui Central Constituency, so that they could pull her out of the national race and put her there. This will be a negative way of dealing with the current political dispensation. I think we should leave political parties to be free to make their decisions. If a candidate feels that he can easily retain his seat and does not need to be on the party list, then that is okay. However, if a candidate feels that he or she may be too busy running around the country and, therefore, the rest of the other politicians who are in his party will benefit from his running around, then it is not fair for you to tie him down to a place where he needs to be at home all the time. With regard to submissions of political party lists, I want to bring to the attention of the Minister again---"
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