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    "id": 662958,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Bill. This is a self serving Bill for the Jubilee Government, as you, probably, know. It is brought singularly for purposes of giving way to the merger of the Jubilee parties and allaying fears of Members that they will lose their seats because of the merger. I have no problem with that; it is entirely up to you to do what you want to do. This Bill has gone through the National Assembly and it has an obligation to come here. The Bill makes amendments to existing provisions by making things a little neater for registration of political parties. In this country, we have political parties that only pop out at election time when the likes of Hon. Kalembe Ndile hang out to harvest money from people who have been blocked from being candidates in their respective political parties. We need to go further and reduce the number of political parties in the country. Even in countries as huge as the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA) in terms of population, you cannot count more than five political parties. In India, including the regions, there are not more than ten political parties. I fail to understand why we have the extravagance of 64 registered political parties, in a country with barely 42 million people. In Tanzania, they only talk of Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), Ukawa, which is a union of parties and Zanzibar’s Afro-Shirazi Party. The same thing applies for our neighbour, Uganda. Where 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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