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    "id": 630545,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/630545/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "I fully support the amendment by Hon. Chris Wamalwa and I want to persuade my colleagues in Jubilee to fully support it. The political future of this country will only thrive when we build strong political parties and institutionalise them. When you have political parties that are only funded by individuals, then democracy goes out of the window and that for you to stay in that party, you must be a sycophant or too loyal to the person who is funding the party. If you will allow me, I would like to emphasise on two issues. The first issue is that Hon. Wamalwa is lowering the threshold and saying that a party must, at least, have five per cent of the vote. If we assume that in the last general elections there were 12 million registered voters and maybe 86 per cent voted, that comes to over nine million voters. Then, over nine million voters multiplied by six different ballots gives you the total number of votes to calculate the percentage from. Any party that can achieve two per cent of that has national character. You cannot get more than one million votes in one region or county. So, on that issue of changing it from 5 per cent to 2 per cent, I fully agree. That is okay, but I hope he is not amending calculations 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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