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    "content": "providing for special seats to ensure that not more than two-thirds of the county representatives are of one gender. I understand what the rights are in Article 81(b) that again, not more than two-thirds of any elective posts should be occupied by members of one gender. We know that when you go to the Bill of Rights, a lot of people have debated and said that you cannot force anybody to elect whoever they do not want. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, be that as it may, I want to go to Clause 14(1) on the nomination of candidates. If a political party is to be considered to have disobeyed the Constitution, how do we measure that? This is the Article that we need to do deal with, so that at the point of nomination of candidates, every political party should be measured by producing one-third of the candidates from each gender. If the Constitution is saying that for all elective positions, you must have not more than two- thirds from one gender, in effect it means that for a political party not to be violating the law, it should ensure that the products that they bring to this House are in agreement with the Constitution. It is my considered opinion, therefore, that this is the Clause that we need to look at and amend to ensure that at the nomination stage, political parties should be held responsible for the Members that they bring to this House. We cannot hold responsible the Kenyans who would like to vote for whoever they want to vote for. I am saying this strongly because we know that we came to this House because of the strength of the nomination that we received. If a political party would like to bring a candidate, it can only come through nomination. With those remarks, I support."
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