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    "id": 294754,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/294754/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, I will do so with pleasure and especially in the presence of--- I would have called them my learned friends but they claim that we are not learned. But my profession which very serious; it is the only one in America where you have a council for economists. We say where you have six economists you get seven decisions. In this other profession when there are six of them you get 12 decisions. But let me just explain. If you look at the Elections Act which Mr. Wetangula was avoiding deliberately - he was talking about the Constitution and the Political Parties Act and we are in the Elections Act – you will find that Section 29(1) talks about the persons who nominate a presidential, parliamentary, county governor and county assembly candidate shall be registered members of the candidate’s political party. We are restricting the candidate nominated by a party to the nomination by the party member so that no other party can cause mischief by maybe nominating a candidate that they know is looking for that particular party. So, that is very good. Section 29(2) states:- “The persons who nominate an independent presidential, parliamentary, county govenor candidate and county assembly shall not be registered members of any political party.” My argument is that while it might appear it makes sense from one to two, what happens when I have an independent candidate on the ballot box? I have this candidate of various political parties on the ballot box and I go there as a member of a particular party to vote. The country has already given me the choices to exercise. I can decide to vote for my party candidate. I can also decide to vote for another party candidate. I can also decide to vote for an independent candidate. What stops a voter from exercising that decision? So, it also means that even to nominate an independent candidate since there is no political party known as “independent” --- I am saying all people of the Republic of Kenya who are registered voters, whether in a party or not, should be at liberty to nominate a particular candidate. That is the import of my amendment. I am using the word “may” because---"
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