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    "id": 650901,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
        "slug": "bonny-khalwale"
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    "content": "In fact, let me pronounce it properly. Sen. Cheruiyot. It will give upcoming politicians like Sen. Cheruiyot an opportunity to think of converting their political cloud into a political party because we will not always agree with leaders of political parties. Because I am sharing an experience, let me tell him that I am happy that next year I will be running on FORD-Kenya, a party that taught me politics and a party that resonates with the spirits of the kind of people who admire my politics. It was very painful because of poor leadership at the top. I was forced to form another political party just to send that person a message that what he can do, I can do better. We do not want to go that route, but strengthen political parties. I hope that sometime in future, a Member of Parliament, be it a Senator or a Member of the National Assembly, will come up with an amendment to kill coalitions. If the intention of raising the threshold is to make sure that we have only a few political parties, then we should also kill coalitions because small parties will sometimes hide in coalitions so as to continue perpetuating themselves. It will, therefore, be necessary to amend that in future, so that we completely remove the clause that allows for coalitions to ensure that a party grows as a party. The beauty of this is that because Kenyans have stupidly ethicized our political parties, the highest that a tribal party can expect to go is the national quarter of its population where it has got dominance. That means that no political party in this country will ever go over 20 per cent. The beauty with it is that when people go to elections, for us to kill this ethnic thinking in voting, then all the political parties will be nowhere near 50 per cent plus 1. They will get less than 20 per cent so that the party that was number one with 17 per cent--- Let us assume that it will be The National Alliance (TNA) because I hope it has the biggest bloc. It could be followed by FORD-Kenya because it has the second biggest bloc although many know that it is the biggest bloc and number one in view of certain nocturnal gymnastics from the men and women of that community. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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