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    "id": 567785,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mati",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "G.J. Munuve Mati",
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    "content": "Okay. If you want me to give my own, I will give an example. I sit in this House because the people of Mwingi North refused to have imposed candidates. I beat my nearest rival by 8,000 votes. My nearest rival had 3,000 votes and I had 11,000 votes. However, nothing stopped the person with the 3,000 votes from getting the certificate. I am only here because the people of Mwingi North Constituency demonstrated and objected to my being removed from being the candidate for my party. Of course, when the candidate with 3,000 voters went to another party, I thrashed him. I doubt whether he got even 1,000 votes. So, while I support having democracy prevail and having strong political parties, I am for the strengthening of political parties. After post-elections they coalesce and decide that they are going to work together. If we had freedom of association and to choose whatever parties we want, there will be no problem of political parties deciding on who will be their flag-bearers. The problem of two or three people sitting somewhere and saying “every nominee must bring Kshs1,000,000”, those who will be unable to give are disallowed and discriminated against in terms of participating in a democratic process that should be guaranteed for all Kenyans should be solved. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to congratulate Hon. Wamalwa for coming up with this grand idea. This is an idea which has taken long to come. I would like to see a situation where all political parties represented in this noble House are allocated money according to their strength in this House. If we have 392 seats, we divide by the amount of money and then multiply by the number of seats that a party has in this honourable House. That will completely do away with the PPPs and FPPs because that is what we have in this place. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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