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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to agree with Dr. Eseli, and go further and say that there are two issues with Clause 14, which require re- committal to the Committee of the whole House. As a Committee, we had asked the secretariat to save two Clauses in the Political Parties Bill, 2007, until the end of this Parliament. These were Clauses 17 and 30. They said that Clause 30 omitted Clause 17 and we did not realise that as we were going through the Bill. The object of saving Clauses 17 and 30 was to take care of the realities in this House. This House is made up of political parties which came together to support a presidential candidate. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the parties that support PNU, and which continue to articulate themselves as independent parties, will be offending the Act, if Clause 17(4)(a) in particular is not saved. In the current Bill, this comes under Clause 14. If this provision is not saved, on either side of the Coalition Government, there will be people directly affected because there are political parties on both sides. On the Clause on notice to quit, which Dr. Eseli articulated, notice is necessary. If not 14 days, some days are necessary. I am asking hon. Members to picture a scenario where you are before the electoral body presenting your nomination papers, the requisite number of people having signed for you. Then suddenly, people just walk in there and say: “we withdraw our signatures. We have now moved to another party”. There will be a written notice but because no time is stipulated, you will be found to have not complied. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what we are saying is that we did not give these Clauses enough thought, and that also the secretariat omitted one Clause. We now cannot talk of the secretariat because we also did not see it when we were considering the Bill during the Committee Stage. These are issues which need re-committal. With those remarks, I beg to second."
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