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    "content": "is a pro-social democracy and justice kind of party. It appears to be the more pro-poor kind of a party, if you look at the composition. You do not have to ascribe to too much capital for you to win favour in terms of parties. It is the party that says: “You have to use the democratic standards.” I remember one of the Senators here saying: “Let the Government do what it must do and let the human rights community not speak about it.” That is not what we believe in. We say: “Do what the Government must do, but observe human rights.” That is the kind of value system. So, it is wrong to imagine that we do not believe in something. We all believe in certain things; it is only that our political aspirations manifest themselves in ethnic arrangements. But you will find that even in these ethnic arrangements or whatever the arrangements that we have in our politics, there are manifest value systems. That is why when we tackle the issue of insecurity and fault our Jubilee colleagues, it is because they believe security must have all structures and we should allow security matters to take over rights provided for in the Constitution. That shows that there is a political party that believes in something. We have a political or belief system that the provisions of the Constitution must not be tampered with and that the rights of individuals are supreme. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I wanted to oppose this Bill on account that we need to strengthen political parties and if we talk about that, some of us who find ourselves in minority communities, it gets the best out of us. How then can I, one day in the very near future, lead the CORD Coalition? It means you have to exercise extra-ordinary political tact. It improves the political character of people and political strategies of individuals. Sooner than later, this issue of big tribes thinking that they are the only ones who have a sway in politics will give way once ideological politics take route. That is why we want to discourage some small splinters that will only give advantage to those who have big tribes. You can imagine today if coast region, which is assumed to be a CORD strong hold, was to have little splinters? It means that it severs the capacity of the CORD Coalition to have a reasonable onslaught on power because the other coalitions consist of two or more major ethnic communities."
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