{"id":294788,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/294788/?format=json","text_counter":70,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. ole Metito","speaker_title":"The Assistant Minister for Regional Authorities Development","speaker":{"id":199,"legal_name":"Judah Katoo Ole-Metito","slug":"judah-ole-metito"},"content":" Mr. Chairman, Sir, I stand to oppose this amendment for simple logic. You cannot belong to more than one political party at one time. Actually, saying that you belong to political party A – an independent candidate is like another party again called” independent”. That is importing people from this party to go and support somebody of another party called independent. So it is not possible. You can be voted by anybody but for somebody to second or propose you and you belong to one political party, I think in that case, my good Secretary-General, I really think this amendment is not necessary and I oppose it."}