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    "id": 282059,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Metito",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Regional Development Authorities",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 199,
        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I really want to applaud the Committee for a proposal that the political parties should bring, per every slot allocated, three names. That will give us now the reason why we should do an election. This is because if they just bring nine names and then we say by acclamation “unopposed”, there will be no election. In fact, I want to say; it is not really unopposed, but there was no alternative. You know, an election should be a process whereby you are given a choice to choose from. If you we just get nine names here, I am very sure we will still raise some objections on issues like “it does not represent regional balance; no gender balance; it does not represent special interests” and then that will end up, again, in court as it did last time. So, I was very happy when I saw the rules proposed by the Committee; that, per every slot that a party is given, they bring three names for that slot. So, if a party has been allocated five names, the party brings 15 names and then this House votes from among the 15 to elect five to represent or to take the slots of that party. There is no harm even with that political party asking us to elect five members from a list of 15 people. We have no problem. This is because we will have a wide variety and a good menu to choose from. Let this 15 represent the following groups: region, shade of opinions, special interests, youth, gender and so on. So, I think that is the way that we should go."
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