{"id":296522,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/296522/?format=json","text_counter":1326,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Namwamba","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":108,"legal_name":"Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba","slug":"ababu-namwamba"},"content":"I do not know whether we are here to debate or to make noise and heckle. It states: “A Member of the National Assembly who, having stood at his election as an elected Member with the support of or as a supporter of a political party, or having accepted appointment as a Nominated Member as a supporter of a political party either:- (a) resigns from that party at a time when that party is a parliamentary party; or, (b) having, after the dissolution of that party, been a Member of another parliamentary party resigns from that other party at a time when that other party is a parliamentary party shall vacate his seat forthwith unless in the meantime that party of which he was last a Member has ceased to exist as a parliamentary party or he has resigned his seat” Madam Temporary Deputy Chair, I raise this matter because---"}