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    "id": 443116,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hassan",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Omar Hassan Sarai",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first and foremost, I want to commend my good friend, Sen. Wangari, for authoring such an important Bill that I think, fundamentally, shifts the balance of representation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Bill is very thoughtful to the extent of the chaos we witnessed in the nomination exercise of Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs) immediately after elections. We saw court battles, court orders, and interventions by the gender commission and so on, thus disenfranchising MCAs who were to be duly nominated to a point where they came in when almost all major decisions had been made. The whole idea about gender parity is about representation. It is about getting that input from minority groups or dispossessed groups from the diversity that is supposed to be represented by these Members in the county assemblies. Therefore, I do believe that if we were to follow up very carefully, it is likely that all these Speakers and chairpersons of county assemblies might have been unconstitutionally elected to those positions"
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