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    "content": "Act in terms of records; Section 14 of the Political Parties Act in terms of resignation from political parties and many others. I do not agree with Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale on coalitions. I do not think that you can have a restriction on coalitions and at the same time have Article 38 in the Constitution. The right to political parties means that right to form coalitions, mergers and constitute parties than can form both pre and post-coalitions. For the benefit of those who do not know, the Australian Senate is U-shaped. It is not like this House. It is almost similar to this House; only that one side would be the ruling coalition the other side would be the opposition but the places on this other side where Sen. Omondi is sitting towards that side would be other minority parties. That is the way to go. That is democracy. We cannot say that we are tired of coalitions because, in fact, we have only in the first five years been having at least coalitions that are working. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, not that coalitions are following their coalition agreements but the fact is that in a true democracy, we would allow other minority parties to be sitting on these seats. We would then have a U-shaped Senate or Parliament. We would have an element of stability. Unlike political parties that are tribal, in other developed countries, there are the green parties. The green party only supports a green environment. That is their agenda. We should have political parties that have a specific agenda as Sen. Cheruiyot said. Therefore, it is not fair to say that there is a problem with coalitions. Article 38 is in force by having coalitions of political parties to have pre and post arrangements prior and after the general elections. I pray that in the future, we have larger political parties fund because that is the only way to ensure that we have equality. If we can have equality of small and big counties, high and low populations, we should have equalities of political parties that comply with Article 91. If a political party has only two or three members and it has 24 registered offices with gender consideration under Article 25, that political party should have a funding. We cannot have big brother or otherwise. In the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) none is a step brother or a big brother. They are all brothers and sisters. That is the only way that will encourage other people, including the minorities, to form political parties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have heard Sen. Billow and his colleagues from the north eastern region wishing to have a pastoralists’ party. Sen. Hargura is here, he can confirm. That is what I am talking about. We can have a party of three or four pastoralists that can be funded. The idea is not to punish or make it punitive. This is a fund that is available to the public. I do not think that it is right to discriminate amongst political parties. That is not a recipe for having briefcase parties where the chairman is a husband, the vice chairman is the wife and secretary general is the daughter and cousins are members. If the Registrar of Political Parties was mindful to check, she would find that there is a political party in my county where the people who have been nominated into various county assemblies are members of the same family. That is a violation of the law. Thank you."
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