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"content": "to some articles or provisions of the Constitution in particular, Article 91(1) of the Constitution. In fact, if I was to be selfish, my party Wiper is point something per centage shy of being a beneficiary of the Political Parties Act. It is 0.8 per cent, which is hardly one Member of the National Assembly. This means then Wiper Party would have been a beneficiary of the Political Parties’ Fund. Even as we are here today, we know that the monies that have been allocated to political parties fall short of the provisions of the Act itself. Therefore, we cannot on one hand say we want to use the kitty to fund so many other interests, yet we do not allocate sufficient resources. My point here being that if that little fund that is available right now was to be disbursed among so many interests that we have, the few parties that have the potential of being national, will also roll back some of their gains. It means less funding to some of those political parties which means less The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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