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    "id": 34979,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you very much. I will be very brief. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Minister for the Bill. I think it is largely good. The first thing I would like the Minister to amend in this Bill is to introduce deputies to the Registrar of Political Parties. It would be fair for this country if the Registrar has 47 deputies, one Deputy Registrar in every county. The work of the Registrar is little but we want our people to access this office and get information. Secondly, I want the Chief Justice to make this office independent from everybody else, so that its holders can be free from intimidation from any political quarter. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to ask the Minister to take the lead on the issue of coalitions. I have been listening to this debate since yesterday, and in other forums where this Bill is being debated. Kenyans have misunderstood the issues. Leading politicians are misleading Kenyans that coalitions, as they obtain today, will be in the next Government. We are going into a purely presidential system, and we need to explain to Kenyans that the so-called “coalitions”, in the context of this Bill, are basically parliamentary caucuses. There will be no coalitions. The President will have nothing to do with Parliament. It will be a totally different thing from a Parliamentary system. In fact, the Presidential election should have been de-linked from the general election, so that when people come here, and ODM wishes to join up with PNU, it will be a parliamentary caucus. We will come here with the Leader of the Majority and the Leader of the Minority as determined by popular vote out there. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is a wrong notion out there that two parties will go into an election and, after we have number one and number two, then number two and number three will drop their running mates and go for a run-off with number one. It will not happen. That is a misnomer which if preached on a daily basis to Kenyans; it will be difficult to do it. If we start doing it, we will have violated the implementation of the new Constitution. We decided to go to a pure Presidential system and we are going to be a pure Presidential State. Thank you."
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