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    "id": 636562,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/636562/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "Secondly, members of the respective parties that want to merge have been given an opportunity in this law, and a timeframe within which to decide and tell them they can finish their term and join another political party. A period of time has been provided in order to remove the element of coercion and dictation. In the previous law, what we used to have as coalition-building and mergers were being done in a very informal way by the political parties, and then they deposit that with the Acting Registrar of Political Parties. Now we have it in law such that if we decide that a certain number of parties want to merge, then it is anchored in the Political Parties Act. We are dealing with political parties. Allow me, as a founder member of ODM in 2007; a founder Member of United Republican Party in 2011 and a person who went through the corridors of court because I was about to be expelled and something happened--- My lawyer was Kioko Kilukumi and if he is watching--- I was taken to court about four times to be expelled from my then parent party. I paid a lot of money in litigation. We struggled in court until the day I was sworn in as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Garissa Township under URP. My lawyer went to court and said: “I think this case has no standing.” That is because the case was about expelling me from one entity. He said: “This man is no longer in that entity.” So, this Bill is coming at the right time. At least, the procedure of appointing the next Registrar of Political Parties is clear. That office is so important in the management of political parties. There are only two people in this country who have been acting for more than eight years. One is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Constituencies Development Fund Board and the second one is the Registrar of Political Parties. I do not know what crime they have committed. How do you solve impartiality? It is by putting in law the recruitment procedure. Finally, even though you told me not to get out of it---"
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