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    "id": 576394,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to oppose this Bill in the sense that the August date, which is proposed in the Constitution, is the right date. A lot of arguments have been advanced about the December date, when we are talking about the exams. The December date interferes with the festivities and a lot of things because when you campaign, you do not just do it in the last three weeks to the elections. You start campaigning about six months earlier. So, you will already be affecting the national exams, which will be held in November or earlier. So, if we talk about students, we do not help them. We have festivities in December like Christmas. When we are in a campaign mood, nobody celebrates. Everybody is on tenterhooks doing politics and that does not augur well, because you do not have the spirit of the festivities. Everything is just political. We said that politics starts a long time before the elections. The whole year from January to December, we will just be politicking and doing nothing else."
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