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    "content": "said that this House continues to prioritise the work of the National Assembly to our detriment. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when I read this Bill, the question in my mind is whether we are making any progress as a country on what the drafters of the Constitution wanted, in terms of how political parties should operate under Article 92. I have no doubt in my mind that the purpose of this Bill is primarily to cause a merger of political parties in the Jubilee Coalition and nothing more. I will still ask a question regarding Clause 5(7) which states that where a party merges with another political party, a member of a political party that has merged shall be deemed to be a member of the new political party. How does this clause go back to Article 1 in terms of the persons who elected us determining which political vehicle we should be in? What happened to the proposals in the Constitution that where a member is unhappy with their political party, they go back to the people who elected them to seek for a mandate? Whether this Senate agrees with this clause, as far as I am concerned, it is in violation of the spirit of the Constitution for a political party to merge and its members to vacate their political party seats without seeking the permission and consent of the people who elected them. We are violating the Constitution for purposes of political expediency. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have similarly, in an attempt to---"
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