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    "id": 289462,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Lastly, today these names went through a vetting process by a Parliamentary Committee of this House, which looked at the CVs and integrity of the individuals. The Committee will bring its Report to this House before we go into election of this country’s representatives to the EALA. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in your direction, I want you to give us an opportunity to scrutinise the Report of the Parliamentary Committee that has been vetting those individuals since morning, looking into their qualifications, integrity; looking into issues of regional balance, gender balance and whether marginalised groups, disabled people and the youth have been incorporated in the list that has been brought to this House. Finally, I plead that you give us direction before the D-day tomorrow on how we should go. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in an election, the cardinal principal is choice. You must be given a choice. When you are told there is a choice of one that you either say “Yes” or “No” that negates the fundamental principle of democracy. If the treaty says “not more than three” the political parties should be very honest to this country and give us 27 members for us to elect nine out of them. With those remarks, I humbly ask for your direction on this matter."
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