{"id":647898,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/647898/?format=json","text_counter":83,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Ms.) F.I. Ali","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13152,"legal_name":"Fatuma Ibrahim Ali","slug":"fatuma-ibrahim-ali"},"content":"Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I stand to strongly support the amendment. Our Constitution is very clear that we are supposed to promote positive discrimination. This is a form of positive discrimination. It is very evident in this country that political parties have not encouraged women. Instead, they have discouraged women. I concur with our Chair. I want to stress here that the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs is a very progressive Chair. I want to plead with the Leader of the Majority Party to support women as he has been doing."}