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    "id": 27463,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 185,
        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
        "slug": "danson-mungatana"
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    "content": "This is an intelligent Minister and I want him to listen to this one. This is all connected to the election process. We, as political parties, are supposed to present our lists one month or thereabouts, before those who are nominated to run for public office. I want to bring this to the Minister’s attention to let us set the date in this Act. This is because it will make political parties to act in a predictable environment. We will not function if this will be left in the air, or to the interpretation of CIOC or to go to the Supreme Court and the process needs to start. If the court is going to say the process will be on the second Tuesday of August, 2012, then this process for political parties must start in October 2011. I am very happy that the Minister is a secretary-general of a political party. I pray that he will be able to look at it and see that a proper amendment is brought and we fix this date appropriately. Clause 44 is another dangerous one for sitting Members of Parliament and others. It says as public officers, we are not to engage in any form of political activities at all. In fact, look at it, hon. Members. I pray we do not rush on this Bill because it will kill us. While on the other side when we are talking about the qualification for the President, with regard to the qualification to run as an MP, we have created an exception. Mr. Minister, if you look at Clauses 24 and 25, for example, for the President and also for the Members of Parliament respectively, they have created an exception that makes the President, Deputy President and Member of Parliament to be able to do their normal political work. Here in Clause 24 we are saying “a public officer” and we are not creating an exception for people who are holding political offices. This effectively will mean we cannot do any political work before the general elections. We need to make sure that we actually create the clause---"
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