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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "“more than two-thirds of its registered office bearers are of the same gender”. This is another thing which Hon. Chris Wamalwa is avoiding. Why are you only caring about amending the resource aspect of it? Why can you not amend the two-third gender rule and say that any political party can be of only one gender? Today, one of the hottest issues in our country is the two-third gender rule. If you allow me, these amendments want to reduce the 5 per cent threshold in Section 25(2)(a) to 2 per cent. I want to tell Members that Hon. Wamalwa also wants to add a new paragraph (c) to section 2 to provide thus: “A political party must secure, at least, five elected Members of the National Assembly, the Senate, five governors, or at least 25 members of the county assembly”. Kenya wants to become united. We want to create a cohesive nation. In fact, we should develop in a way that we are going to have two political parties like in the USA where we will have only two serious political presidential candidates. In my Somali community, we have 115 clans. So, this law is telling us that every clan should have its own political party. The Kisii will have 50 political parties. With regard to what the hon. Member for KADU was saying, yes, there is poor nomination in political parties. Today, we have 47 political parties in our country. This is because in the Political Parties Act, we have said, if you are a party, you must have 24 registered offices out of 47 counties. If that rule was not there, we could be having more than 500 political parties today. However, the briefcase guys could not open 44 county offices. The ODM, Wiper, FORD Kenya, URP, TNA and UDF managed to do that. I am now being told that the UDF transformed to something called “Amani”. However, we do not have Amani but UDF in the House. What does this amendment means? By amending the Act to reduce the threshold of political parties to qualify for the benefits from the Fund from 5 per cent to 2 per cent, the political parties that will benefit from the Fund are likely to increase from the present three. In some of the big coalitions, for example, CORD or ODM said that it would share the money with its brothers and sisters. We said in Jubilee that the money that TNA and URP will get, we will share with UDF and Chama cha Baba na Mama . I remember the CORD Principal saying: “FORD Kenya, do not worry. Wiper, do not amend the law because we will give you some little money”. They have given you some money but now you want to snatch their money by force through legislation. What is happening is like FORD Kenya and Wiper Party want to use force through legislation to get money from ODM when ODM is already giving. The TNA and URP are also giving out some money. Our parties are giving out some money. This amendment may, however, encourage political parties to campaign only for the purpose of obtaining minimum votes required to enable them benefit from the Fund."
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