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    "id": 402330,
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    "text_counter": 173,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are Cabinet Secretaries who feel threatened by Members of Parliament. Therefore, they cannot appear in public to precede Members of Parliament who vetted them. Similarly, at the county functions, Members of the County Executive should not precede Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs) because it is MCAs who vetted them to become servants of the people in their particular counties. Again, coming from this plenary, it has now become clear that the preferred order of precedence would be: 1. President; 2. Deputy President; 3. Speaker of either House of Parliament; and, 4. The Chief Justice. The reason we had to swop the Chief Justice and the Speakers of the two Houses of Parliament is because the Chief Justice is vetted by the Houses of Parliament. However, the Speaker is the Head of the Houses of Parliament and is elective. Number four would be the Chief Justice. He would be followed by a Senator, Governor, Member of the National Assembly and Cabinet Secretaries and, hot on the heels, the Attorney-General, Controller of Budget and the Speaker of the County Assembly; finally, a Member of the County Assembly. On the issue of titles, the commonsense of this House seems to suggest that the President should be referred to as His or Her Excellency as the case may be and similarly, the Deputy President should be referred to as His or Her Excellency as the case may be."
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