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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other issue in Article 16 is on leadership. We are saying that not everybody can be a leader of a political party, and that has to be criteria. You must be a person of integrity; the problem with our political parties is that a lot of their leaders are actually masters of impunity. They are the lords of impunity – people who have been associated with public theft or with this scandal or that scandal. If you want to look at the officials of our political parties, a lot of them have been associated with one scandal or the other. We cannot say that: “Because I have not been found guilty, I qualify”. I think the mere association is an important factor that should be taken into account as we vet those people who want to be leaders of political parties, especially if these leaders are the same ones who want to be presidents of this country. They must lead by example. They must not have any taint or any association with issues related to integrity. Again in this country we keep on saying they have not been found guilty, but we know justice system has been there. The reason we are vetting judges is because we know the judges of the past were more about proving the guilty innocent and not the other way round."
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