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"content": "parties that are funded do not have the required number of offices. For example, the office of a party - I do not want to mention in Mombasa - has already been turned into a residential place. Another one in western Kenya has its offices in a church while another one in central Kenya has an office in a spares shop. This means that the money that the funded parties get is not enough even for them. What about those who are not funded? They are really struggling. As my colleague has said, for democracy to flourish in this country and for us to run away from the issue of a single party and dictatorship, we really need to support those parties to be funded. Again, we never know about tomorrow. Even if we come from parties that are funded, we might end up not getting nomination in the parties that are funded. So, my colleagues, you might find yourself looking for a party that will give you a nomination certificate. You also want to come to a party that has good governance, is democratic and abides by the law and gender rules. It is stipulated that every political party must not have more than two-thirds of its members of the same gender. Finally, getting 2 per cent of the votes cast for a party to be funded, as the Bill says in the amendment, is not a tall order for most of the unfunded parties. It will also help unfunded parties to grow democratically. With those few remarks, I urge my colleagues to support this amendment, so that we do not have a fiasco in the 2017 General Election. We yearn to have free, fair and transparent elections in 2017. Thank you very much. I second."
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