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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "Thank you very much. We would like to welcome them to the House. We hope that they will be motivated to become Members of Parliament when they grow up. The Bill seeks, among other things to ensure that political parties shall promote values of inclusiveness, democracy and participation of the people. The Bill further seeks to ensure that the applicants for registration of a political party uphold the constitutional threshold of the two-thirds gender rule. Most of the political parties do not comply with this rule. If you look at the top echelons of political parties, they are mainly composed of one gender. Once this Bill is passed, it is going to be a requirement that the political institutions of each party must uphold the principle of the two-thirds gender rule as contained in Article 27(8) of the Constitution. This Bill seeks to address the issue of mergers of parties. There have been inadequacies. The Registrar of Political Parties has many applications from parties seeking to merge. Unfortunately, there are inadequacies in terms of the law on how that should be dealt with. This Bill also seeks to ensure that terms such as “ethnic minorities, marginalised communities, special interest groups and youth” are defined in accordance with the Constitution. Currently, in the legislation it is not well defined who the marginalized communities and ethnic minorities are. This proposed amendment seeks to define that and give clarity of who composes the marginalised communities, ethnic minorities and the youth, so that we do not have confusion. Clause 3 seeks to ensure that political parties promote the values of inclusiveness, democracy and participation by the people, so that people participate in the political parties. We 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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