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    "content": "have put enough stringent measures to ensure that you do not become a regional party by making sure that as a party, you are, first of all, very sure that you have presence in 24 counties. This should not be construed to mean that you only have an office where you put someone to sit there the whole day and do registrations or issue brochures. It means having registered members to your party. These measures are already sufficient to limit that. By limiting this democratic space, we will be retrogressing and going backwards. So, Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to support this Motion but, at the same time, support it with a rider that we need to be open minded; we need to give space for people to express themselves in political parties in line with the freedom of expression and freedom of association. Let parties take part in other roles apart from just sponsoring candidates to Parliament or to other elective positions. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to give you a very quick experience I had. When we were starting UDF, we did it in a very special way. We went round the country to more than half of the counties seeking views from citizens on what a political party is. The definitions we were given--- We would hear some saying that a political party is a vehicle or a dress that you wear, and then after you cross to the other side and you are in Parliament, you discard it! Others would say that it is a ladder that you use as you climb up and when you get there, you fold it up. I think this can only be addressed by making sure that political parties are self-sustaining; political parties do not depend on one person who is then also given the mandate to---"
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