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    "content": "presidential system, as a Member of the Select Committee on the Constitution then, I know that majority of us were not for this system but, because we wanted to move the country forward, the process entailed a give-and-take kind of spirit – a spirit I would want to encourage this House to embrace so that sometimes we do not have almost acrimonious exchanges. Therefore, having adopted this new system, and given the fact that about 80 per cent of us are new in this House, it may entail us going through this process for a while to see whether it works before we even think about amending the Constitution. We may eventually have to go there but I would suggest that we think of noble ways of going about these matters in the interim period. What you have suggested, in terms of the Committee on Implementation, is good. Hon. Speaker, Sir, in the interim, I would suggest that we think of noble ways. Again, what you have suggested in terms of the Committee on Implementation is good but I think I want to agree with the hon. Member for Rarieda. I was actually going to suggest that one way is to go through the Committee of the whole House. However, one of the things that is of major concern to me are Motions. You know, I think this is the third month or so that we are in the House and most of the work we have done is in relation to Motions. My concern is that even though we are saying we will use the Committee on Implementation, going by the work that the Committee on Implementation did in the last Parliament, I do not know whether we need to review the problems that, that Committee may be having because it absolutely did no work in the last Parliament."
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