Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 325257,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/325257/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 255,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Oyugi",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 73,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Oyugi Magwanga",
        "slug": "joseph-magwanga"
    },
    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am happy that I am in this august House at this particular moment. I rise to oppose this particular amendment with several reasons. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Article 91 of this Constitution isolates and highlights what political parties are supposed to be about. This amendment was anticipated by the drafters of Article 38 of the Elections Act that is supposed to fill a certain spirit. That spirit is supposed to be one that stops the issue of party hopping and making sure that political parties are engrained in certain ideologies. If you look at Articles 91 and 92 of the Constitution, you will find that they try to address Article 34 of the Elections Act, which state that political parties need to be engrained on ideologies, principles and issues. To allow an amendment in the manner that is proposed, I think is to run away from the very fabric of Articles 91 and 92 of the Constitution. The other reason I oppose this amendment is the reason given for the amendment. The Mover wants the amendment made because of the high number of people who will be affected by the law. That is why I oppose this amendment. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, democracy is not cheap. We must either agree that we are moving forward to being a democracy or we are not. If we want to be a democracy, then we must be able to pay the price. If it is the Tenth Parliament that will pay that price, let it be. We must proceed and make sure that this amendment does not pass in this House. We are moving towards the general elections and several things are happening. We are seeing a lot of party hopping or whatever it is supposed to be, but should we allow that, then it will beat the very purposes for which the Elections Act was meant to and hopes to achieve. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Mover raises several things. He wants to harmonize Section 34(8) and Section 28 of the Constitution which hopes to, for example, say that two things are happening two months to an election. If you look at Article 102 of the"
}