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    "id": 562513,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, as you consider that, may we be reminded, and this is the last consideration I would beg your Chair to think about very deeply, for us, as a Parliament, to disagree with the President in the reservations, strictly so-called, we need two-thirds. That can only happen if we debate the Bill. That invites another fundamental question. What should the quorum be for debating, from the very beginning, Presidential Memoranda, reservations or references to the House? Because, really, if you need two- thirds to alter it - and by the way, you can only debate to alter, affirm or come up with new provisions - what should the quorum be? Is it possible that we can have a situation where, for instance, we are dealing with our national values and democratic principles, and because it is known that Parliament at a particular time is not going to have the two- thirds, by way of reservation, the Executive can sit somewhere and you have a Bill saying that Kenya will be a dictatorship and we fall flat on it? Before we reach even the level of saying how the arms and organs of Government can check one another, how do we deal with this issue properly and conclusively?"
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