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    "id": 638929,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Nyasuna",
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": "There has been a concern about a bloated House or bloated numbers. When you work out those numbers to 290, as the Seconder has ably said, you find that if, for example, we increase the number of women we currently have elected in constituencies from 16 to 32, the number we will need after implementing this principle is not more than 28 to 33 members being brought in on the affirmative action principle. From a Commission perspective, looking at the House, it will still be able to accommodate us. It usually does when we have joint sittings. It can accommodate us. We will not need to break down walls or move to a new building because of implementing the two-thirds gender principle. The other very attractive bit is that this is affirmative action. It is not here to stay forever. What this Bill advocates and what the subsequent legislation is going to enforce is that no person shall vie for affirmative action seats for more than two terms. Therefore, even those elected as women’s representatives have to think about the future. They will not vie for more than two terms. They cannot keep coming to Parliament on affirmative action seats. We have to give room for other women to take the affirmative action places and nominations. The sunset clause of 20 years will allow us to sit back and review those affirmative action seats after 20 years. Probably, in 20 years, we will have as many female governors as we do male. We will have as many female senators as we do male, if not more. We will have as many female Members of the National Assembly as we do male. Therefore, the affirmative action clauses within our Constitution will then come to a sunset naturally. I thank the men of the 11th Parliament."
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