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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, Article 14 – resignation from a political party – alludes to what I have already said. I think the Minister should look at that very closely. In Clause 14(6) there is this convoluted phrase “in relation to the common objective of a coalition” that my able Secretary General pointed out to hon. Githae. Coalitions are between parties and not individuals. If your primary party has sponsored you to go to a coalition and you become a renegade to your primary party, you cannot seek solace in the coalition. Your defence lies in your primary party. The moment you have become a renegade in your primary party, you cannot be a good member of a coalition. It cannot work. These things must be looked at if we want to grow democracy. This is because if my party walked into a coalition and one member suddenly veers off and pretends that because he is in a coalition he is protected by the coalition, then we are not doing the correct thing. I would urge the Minister that at the Committee of the whole House stage, he should find how to fine-tune this. This is because I have spent a lot of time talking to hon. M. Kilonzo about renegade members of political parties, and he holds this firmly; I know that for sure. I want to see this translated into the law that he has brought here, so that we do not have, again, to leave the Registrar to determine who is a renegade and who is not, when it is very clear to all and sundry that the renegades are everywhere."
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