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    "id": 483021,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I want to support the amendment as proposed but I think the Committee, may be not now but as we proceed in the future, should take a further look at the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties. This is because I believe that there will be democracy in our country if people respect their political parties but we have seen cases where parties recommend disciplinary action on errant members to the Registrar of Political Parties and no action is taken. I think we need to strengthen as a further amendment in future the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties so that we may have discipline. In a democracy, there have to be winners and losers. Like I have said here before, winning and losing is not a permanent thing; today you win, tomorrow you lose; today you are in the Opposition and tomorrow you are in the Government. It would be important that people respect the vehicles that bring them to this House and that can only happen if we strengthen the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties; we give it teeth so that when political parties, with reason, recommend a member for disciplinary action or recommend for removal of a member from the register of political parties, then that action should be taken. I support!"
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