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    "id": 567682,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Iringo Kubai",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
        "slug": "cyprian-kubai-iringo"
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    "content": "Kenya, being a young democracy, needs to be nurtured very carefully and tended to ensure growth of small political parties. In big democracies like the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA), parties have evolved from many small ones to big ones, until they settled on main big parties, which form the government or the opposition. The citizenry in those democracies participate in elections in big numbers. As a small democracy, we cannot say that we have reached a stage where we have got two big parties that need to be funded and carry the order of democracy in this county, given that even the big parties are coalitions of many small parties. They have evolved from many parties and have changed names, guard and leadership and the same trend continues. We have not reached a saturation point where we can say we have reached that level. Therefore, I strongly feel that even the other small parties should be considered for funding. Even if it is a party with one person, provided it is represented in this House or in a county government. We have Members in this Parliament who were in the so called big parties. In one way or the other, they were either rigged out or something happened and they were not nominated. They went solo, joined independent and small parties and fought the war. This showed that on the ground they were capable. If there are parties represented here, I strongly belief and feel that they should be considered for funding like other parties; at the end of the day, we have not come to that age where we can talk of two or three big parties in this country. We will remain with many parties as long as this democracy is growing. We need to give a chance to every aspiring leader to have a chance and share in the national cake."
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