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    "id": 45043,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. A. Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to support this Motion. We keep judging ourselves against the best practices all over the world. The home of purported freedom of speech is said to be in the United States of America (USA) but even in that country, there is regulation pertaining to this subject. Why should we allow situations because they favour us at one time? Why am I supporting the regulation of this matter? Let us be frank. In most of the opinion polls that are run by FM radio stations, we send airtime to our supporters to give their opinions in our favour. These things are manipulated. I do not have issues with the national opinion polls where we are told: “This opinion poll covers 1,300 respondents in this region.” In such opinion polls, you can see why the opinions are being shaped in a certain way. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this thing begins when an opinion poll is conducted by a television station or a FM radio station. When an opinion poll is conducted by a television station, we give money to our supporters to send SMS messages to tilt the views in a different way. I once met an individual who had sent an SMS saying “no” to a certain opinion poll. When I asked him what his view was, he said: “That is the message we received – that, we, Muslims, must send SMSs saying “no” to this matter.” Therefore, since we know that there is manipulation in some opinion polls, and that some of the outcomes of opinion polls have very serious consequences, why do we say that opinion polls should take place, but in the case of radio stations, they must state how many callers said what. For instance, if out of 30 callers 15 agreed or disagreed, the fact that you know the number of respondents enables you to give credence to such an opinion poll. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have situations where an opinion poll being run by some agency is cancelled without reasons being given for doing so."
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