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    "id": 566585,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/566585/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Emanikor",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1092,
        "legal_name": "Joyce Akai Emanikor",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to oppose this amendment, not because I do not want to support the smaller parties, but because of many other reasons, which means that we will need many other amendments to qualify our support. This will encourage formation and proliferation of many parties and political promiscuity as has been alleged by a person who spoke earlier than me. People will jump from one party to another even three times in a day. While we recognize the existence and need for sustainability of political parties, there is also need for those parties to maintain the expected status that befits the funding. There is need for them to maintain continuity with or without elections. As it is now, many of the smaller parties are only formed during elections and closed after elections. We need to avoid regionalization and ethnicity in parties, internal squabbles that are related to personal benefits and resource sharing in the parties. Each party needs to be based on some policy and ideological platform. This is lacking in the Kenyan case. It should not be based on the whims of individuals who are deemed to own those parties in partnership with their tribesmen as personal property. There should be a threshold of forming those parties and qualifying for funding. As it is now, I oppose until we bring on board amendments that will qualify. Parties can be classified into three, namely, big, small and smaller. There are parties that are formed for purposes of securing funding for individuals that are running those parties. I oppose the amendment."
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