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    "id": 35336,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when it comes to mergers, the provision given in the Bill is weak. It is giving mandarins of parties leeway to sit at the top and merge parties without necessarily going back to the members who own the party. We have said in the new Constitution that certain fundamental decisions in this country cannot be made without going to a referendum. Now, I would want these mergers to be tested a little deeper, by the parties going to their larger membership, so that the members can decide whether or not they should be a merger and not just the leaders of parties sitting somewhere and saying: “we merge.” Perhaps, a National Delegates Conference (NDC) of a political party would be the right organ to bring everybody on board and say: “Fine, today we are merging one party with another.”"
}