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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "political parties. This is to ensure a better playing field especially for women. As other Members have said, women tend to find it easier vying in smaller parties because usually there is no room for them in bigger parties. If we provide a level playing field for women in political parties, then I would support such an amendment because it would work towards reforming our political parties. I would, therefore, encourage Members, and at the same time wish it came at this time. However, the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs has assured me that it is in the amendments that are coming. We should have provided for a criterion that parties which do not elect women in single member constituencies, should lose a certain percentage as a consequence. That will mean that the parties will be more serious about fielding more women candidates. I know that there are several women who are able and capable of vying in their parties but because of many factors including violence and what we call “the finish” most women do not have--- “The finish” is an issue of having money to bribe. I am not asking women to bribe. Men tend to have a lot more money that they use in “the finish” than the women. Because of all those issues and other cultural factors, many women find it very difficult but there are many women who are vying for seats including gubernatorial seats. I know Hon. Deputy Speaker is going for it."
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