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    "content": "is provided for in the Constitution. In fact, if you check Article 132, up there in terms of ranking of the--- and rightly so because the sovereign power has been delegated to these institutions by the people - Parliament is number one and the Executive follows. So, the only opportunity that Parliament has to interact with the Executive is when the President comes to you, in observance of that constitutional obligation and for you as that oversight body over the Executive, to interrogate - including why you should have those many days to debate the Presidential Address. Article 132(1)(c) of the Constitution says:- 1The President shall- (c) Once every year- (i) report, in an address to the nation, on all the measures taken and the progress achieved in the realization of the national values referred to in Article 10; (ii) publish in the Gazette the details of the measures and progress under sub- paragraph (i); and (iii) submit a report for debate to the National Assembly on the progress made in fulfilling the international obligations of the Republic. So, it is an opportunity for the national Executive to come to Parliament and submit those written documents, which we are under obligation to interrogate. So, it was in consideration of all these that your leadership, through the RBC, decided that we should proceed along the manner we are proceeding. Even if we proceeded along these lines and we do not take heed of what Sen. Billow has said, in terms of getting numbers for voting, and in terms of what Sen. (Dr.) Machage has also said that we spend a lot of time on Statements and Motions whereas our business as a Parliament is through Bills, we must give those Bills a priority if we still want to maintain the integrity of our calendar and accomplish the constitutional obligations that we have. I thought I would just say that so that I can explain a few other things and so that we reach some common understanding. So, we should proceed to put the question. Order, Members! I therefore wish to put the question. This of course, is a matter not affecting counties; it is a matter affecting your time here."
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