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    "speaker_name": "The Speaker (",
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    "content": "Hon. Ethuro): Hon. Senators, I feel greatly honoured and highly privileged today to have been elected to this esteemed position of the Speaker of the Senate. I am humbled by the immense confidence and the trust that you have demonstrated and bestowed on me. I also wish to salute and to thank my able opponents for upholding a high degree of democracy. Allow me, hon. Senators, from the very beginning to convey my sincere congratulations to the entire membership of this House for your successful election. I also want to salute you, my Senators, for giving me this onerous mandate of the Office of the Speaker and for entrusting me with this task and noble duty to serve you. As you assemble here this morning, it is important to visualize the re- establishment of the Senate with a sense of history. The first Senate existed in the immediate post-independence period from 1963 until 1966 when the Provincial Assemblies were scrapped and the Senate itself got dissolved. The Members of the Senate then were combined with those of the House of Representatives into a unicameral National Assembly. The independence Senate was conceived as a model of governance The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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