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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you and thank my colleague, the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs, for the manner he has prepared this Bill and presented it to the House. For the reasons I will give, I beg to second debate on it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have come a very long way. If the House can remember a little bit of history, in the old monarchies in Europe, particularly what Rumsfeld, a former Defence Secretary in the United States, called “the Old Europe”, it was generally believed that monarchs had the divine right to rule. They did not need their subjects to participate in any elections, let alone run for elective seats. It was an exclusive club of the leadership of any country. More recently, we have seen what is happening in the world, and this underlines the fact that elections are very important matters. Even in societies where it was thought that divine rule was accepted, in places as remote as Nepal, the Arab world now, people are demanding their fair share in governance and leadership, and to participate in free and fair elections. Elections must not only be free and fair, but must also be seen to be so."
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