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    "id": 598212,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/598212/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Elachi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. During the voting on Kiala’s case, I was the one who really insisted to ensure we stand and continue with the precedence we had set in the House. Therefore, we cannot vote without ensuring we have the numbers of delegations we had agreed on as Senate. At the same time, it will be very unfortunate for us to only realize at this time that we need to stick to our rules just because of the convenience of what we have done through this other Motion of the Presidential veto. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, going forward - because we need to ensure we have all these things in law - either within our Standing Orders, we need to do an amendment that will show us that when we have a veto for the President, this is how to deal with that situation. The Senate Minority Leader has brought in the issue of procedure which is correct because we now need to move on from that precedence to understand that when we have a veto - I think it will be important for us to put it in our Standing Orders. The most important thing we need to ask ourselves is what we will do with Article 123. Article 123 (4)(a) and (b) alludes to the fact that while you designate that vote of your county, and when we call, for example, the women who have been elected through the party list to come and stand in as Members of the delegations"
}