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    "id": 30838,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/30838/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "I stand here to affirm that there is a constitutional issue and we will be breaching the express provisions of the Constitution. Mr. Chairman, Sir, my worry is not about pre-election mergers. That is something that we can live with even if I personally was opposed to that. My problem is with legitimization of party-hoping; the reason which one can call political promiscuity. What is actually happening is that the Constitution has come to improve the platform upon which we have been operating. But if you look at the current Political Parties Act, it is stronger on discipline than the Bill we are trying to pass here. The Bill we are trying to pass here, not only removed the period of notice for one leaving the party, which again is a Clause one can live with, but it legitimized party-hoping. Mr. Chairman, Sir, it cannot be permissible that a person goes to the voters to say you are being elected on party “x” and then as a free agent you keep on hoping from one party to another in Parliament. That is a fraud on the voters. If you look at Chapter 6 on Integrity, it is a matter of integrity as well. I believe that the Bill as it is now is unconstitutional. This is the House that has sworn to defend the Constitution. This is a matter that Mr. Speaker is obliged to look at and give a ruling to this House."
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