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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Timothy Wanyonyi Wetangula",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I add my support to this amendment. There are many political parties in this House that have Members of Parliament, MCAs and even some elected governors and senators and yet the threshold, as provided in the law, excludes them from benefiting from this public funding. This amendment will allow political parties that have sponsored members who have won elections and are members of the National Assembly, Senate or as mentioned in the amendment, to broaden the support for political parties and also move away from those rogue party leaders who hold political parties to ransom. When we give them public funding, they will be accountable to the public and they can account for the funds. I support this amendment because we need to support political parties that are still fragile to enable them sponsor members and benefit from the public coffers instead of depending on the whims of the owners of those political parties. I support."
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