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    "content": "Hon. Members, in light of this finding, the real issue for clarification is how to deal with a situation where the President expresses his reservations to a Bill and makes specific recommendations in that regard and the threshold of voting in such circumstances. To this extent, I must emphasise that where the President chooses to make specific recommendations to the House, the House is not bound to accept the specific recommendations in the forms submitted by the President. That is why the Constitution in Article 115 (2) contemplates that Parliament will put in place appropriate procedures for this kind of scenario. However, in the absence of such procedures in our Standing Orders I am convinced, pursuant to the discretion conferred upon me by Standing Order No.1 (2) that any committee or Member of the House is free to propose alternative amendments to the presidential recommendations so long as such amendments have the effect of fully accommodating the President’s reservations - I put emphasis on the words “fully accommodating.” The voting threshold for the passage of such alternative recommendations or proposals made by the President is a simple majority as contemplated in Article 121 of the Constitution. However, where a committee or a member of the House 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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