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    "id": 404784,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/404784/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to support this Procedural Motion and I want to urge the Members of the Minority Coalition to appreciate that our current Standing Orders will lead to these Bills which have already been read a first time to collapse. We know this Motion is important, but if we do not conclude these matters, Bills such as the one from my Committee been languishing in this House for 11 years. Do you want it to be in your conscience that you are ones who want to debate Motions that require urging and nudging the Government instead of dealing with what brought you here? More importantly Members, it is time we really appreciate that the Constitution changed our system from a parliamentary to a presidential one. There is no space for Motions and Statements in a presidential system. What is happening is that those of us - it is true, let me say the truth - who moved the last Standing Orders, and I was one of them---"
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