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    "id": 566627,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/566627/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. M.D. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohamed Dahir Duale",
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    "content": "The amendment is seeking to lower the limit, so that more political parties can access funds from the Treasury. This is the correct thing to do because during electioneering, the bigger parties collect more money and many people cannot pay that kind of money. So, people end up going to smaller political parties. This causes marginalisation of smaller parties. I support this amendment because in every election, we have proliferation of parties. The parties that are getting funds today might be the ones that will get it tomorrow. The political parties that are getting funding should not see this amendment as being against them. Tomorrow, they might become the smaller parties that will need that affirmative action. Lowering this threshold and allowing smaller parties to access funding is going to contribute towards further democratisation. The greatest thing that happened in Kenya was to have funding for political parties."
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