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    "id": 636522,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1154,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "should not have briefcase political parties. We do not want parties which are controlled by one individual. We want parties that have structures from bottom going up as opposed to from top going down as we have seen some parties promoting in this country. When many parties in the last election were told that they must comply with the rule of participation by the people to recruit members in, at least, 24 counties, they went to Mpesa points and recruited members. We would like to discourage that. We would like the membership to be built from the grassroots as opposed to membership that is drawn from Nairobi. Clause 5 seeks to amend Section 6 of the principal Act by making it a requirement that applicants for registration of a political party must meet the constitutional threshold of the two- thirds gender rule as enshrined in the Constitution. There are, at least, more than three constitutional proposed amendments that seek to meet the threshold of the two-thirds gender rule in this House and also in the Senate. The county assemblies are now properly constituted in accordance with Article 27 (8) of the Constitution. We would also like that good practice to be cascaded to the political parties. Clause 6 seeks to amend Section 7 of the principal Act by harmonizing the use of the phrase “special interests groups”. It also introduces the requirement that political parties provide a desegregated data of its membership based on each of the components of the special interest groups so that every political party that seeks to file membership of their political parties with the Registrar of Political Parties must show in their list, members of the special interest group, minority group and youth group. This is so that they are not marginalised and are taken care of in accordance with the constitutional provisions which require that we adhere to promoting special interests in all organs of our institutions."
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