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    "id": 294749,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/294749/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Trade",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": " Mr. Chairman, Sir, the purpose of having a Political Parties Act and the intention to sanitize and discipline political parties and their Members is constitutional. If a person elects to join a political party, you make a conscious decision to be a member of that party, participate in the activities of that party, nominate candidates of that party and nowhere else. It cannot be that you are a member of Gikomba Party, you go and nominate candidates on the Kamukunji Party. That is not the intention of the Political Parties Act. That is also not the intention of the Constitution. To specify one is to exclude others, so the law says. This amendment is again one of the unfortunately reverse gears we are engaging on the very laws we have passed in this House. I wish to strongly urge the hon. Ethuro who I believe, believes in the spirit and the letter of the Political Parties Act and the Constitution to reconsider this amendment because to say---"
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