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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. If you look at Article 131 of the Constitution, the President is supposed to safeguard, protect and defend the Constitution. Therefore, when a matter like this reaches the President, it is not just a question of looking at the Bill and the content of the Bill, there is also the question of the President ensuring that the Bill was enacted in accordance with the Constitution. There is a whole chapter or part of the Constitution dealing on how Bills that come to Parliament should be enacted. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when you look at Article 115, the choice of the words there is very deliberate. The President is never required to refer a Bill back to the National Assembly or the Senate. The referral of a Bill by the President is to Parliament. It is obvious, from the provisions of the Constitution, that it may have to do with many other issues. The President being a guarantor and a defender of the Constitution should not only look at the content, but also the process. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Motion, therefore, makes a lot of sense. In fact, it is rational that a Bill which is a product of mediation between the National Assembly and the Senate, in consideration of the referral by the President, there should be a mediation process again so that we do not replicate or compound a process which had to done through mediation. Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Sir--- I was just about to promote you. Sorry for the slip of the tongue. Maybe, it may come to happen one day."
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