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    "content": "results of the elections as legitimate. Since then, we have had an election in 2007 which was a disaster. The results of that election were commissions and more commissions which proposed that we should have a new Constitution with proper electoral laws and management of elections so that we can have elections like we had in 1963 and 2002. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in 2013, the very institutions that we had established under the new Constitution let this nation down. There is no need of burying our heads in the sand thinking that the institution that let the nation down in 2013 will give good service to the nation in 2017. We may have another election where although the victors may celebrate victory, the losers will not accept the results as legitimate. In East Africa, we even have consequences of competitive elections; the Ugandan election. In Uganda, the sitting Government decided to disorganize the election so that whatever they held had no resemblance to democratic elections. The outcome was that even the victors could not celebrate victory. The losers are, of course, in court and are challenging the outcome. We have had other African countries under military regime, but that is the first time where the victors have been afraid to celebrate victory I ask that when the President comes to address the nation on Thursday, let it not be a white wash Address of the Nation, but one which goes to the core of the health of the nation and not a public relations exercise. I beg to support."
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