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    "id": 648638,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/648638/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 981,
        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "system, it continues to be very important for us to have strong parties that are national, impersonal and not funded by individuals. We want to have parties that are funded by the taxpayer and the criteria will allow those objectives to be pursued under the new Act in the amended version. I also wish to note that 30 per cent of the funding for political parties should be reserved for marginalised groups who are women, youth and persons with disability. That criterion in the law is not affected by the amendments that we are passing today. If we look at the criteria and the two-thirds gender law, we will find that there will be a further amendment requiring that when the political parties fund is being shared, 15 per cent is shared based on the women who are elected on a party ticket. We continue to encourage our parties to allow women candidates to get their party tickets. It is not just for the parties to give women party tickets where they are weak but for parties to give women party tickets where they are strong. The ODM must give more women party tickets in Nyanza, the TNA must give more women party tickets in Central and the URP must give more women party tickets in the Rift Valley. In the political parties funding, there will be a 15 per cent reservation for women who get elected on a party ticket. So, in supporting the mediated version, we have more objectives with the political parties funding and we hope that all these amendments will be passed by the National Assembly. I beg to second. Thank you."
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