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        "legal_name": "Nuh Nassir Abdi",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it will be well understood that hon. Eseli could still have made such contribution in the House. The freedom to associate cannot be capped in time. You cannot set a time limit within which you can associate with a political party, or within which a second political party should not be deemed to associate with another political party. People are raising fears that pre-election coalitions are a recipe for people to fight, or that they will be avenues for people to gang up against one another for purposes of general elections. It could happen that even before elections come, parties find that they have got so many similarities. So, for such parties to be restrained from having an association merely because elections are nearing is an infringement on the rights of individuals, which rights are offered by the Constitution. Besides, people fear that pre-election coalitions will be a recipe for turmoil because it has happened previously when people and political parties went into coalitions but did not deposit the coalition agreements with the relevant office. In this case, we have a provision for a coalition agreement, under Sub-clause (1), for an agreement to be deposited with the Registrar at least three months before an election. So, once we have put a provision for another office to monitor even pre-election agreements that would come about, I do not think there should be any fear and people be restrained from having coalitions at any time they so wish. This is a right which has been enshrined in the Constitution for people to associate even at night, if they so wish."
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