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    "id": 282716,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/282716/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 195,
        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, notwithstanding the fact that you allowed the hon. Member a lot of latitude whereas when I was answering the other question, he was the one who came and actually lectured me that I should not give him an opinion. But I talked about political parties and ideologies and I believe in this. It is understood that when the political party formation is at its infancy, several political parties will emerge. Experiences in the former Eastern European countries actually testify to this; that at one time they had over 50 political parties in Poland. A ballot paper was actually a booklet. Eventually, these political parties coalesce into bigger political parties and movements and there will be a lot of changes in that process. I have been saying that our political party system has come of age. Wilson Churchill said when he was actually on his third political party that there was nothing wrong in changing so long as it is a change for the better. Wherever I have changed, it has always been for the better but the hon. Member is saying that I hold a record; I have changed political parties four times because the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) was not a political party as such. We were in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The Kenya African National Union (KANU), Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), United Democratic Movement (UDM) and United Republican Party (URP) are four. He himself has changed parties four times like myself."
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