{"id":35338,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/35338/?format=json","text_counter":353,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Wetangula","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":210,"legal_name":"Moses Masika Wetangula","slug":"moses-wetangula"},"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."}