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    "id": 690273,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/690273/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A. B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "I am talking about serious parties. I am talking about Jubilee, the ODM, Wiper and Ford Kenya. Let me now go back to the Bill. The idea of people dishing out party nomination certificates has been there in the 6th Parliament, the 7th Parliament, the 8th Parliament, the 9th Parliament and the 10th Parliament, which I served. That is why the framers of the Constitution and the Act said that the names of nominated members must be submitted in advance. Before a party wins or becomes the opposition, people select their girlfriends at Serena. Some of us who fought for the party do not know what is going on. That is why people like Hon. Isaac Mwaura and many others are in this House. If it was the old system, they would not be here. That is why you can see we have people from the disabled groups in this House who are nominated. We have women leaders in this House. If it was the old story, Hon. Isaac Mwaura and many others would today be in the ODM as small people. If he was here he could have testified. I am talking about how he got the nomination. If you have fought for your space in this House, that is a different story. Clause 11 seeks to amend Section 33 of the Elections Act. What does it do? It requires independent candidates to submit their names to the Commission, at least, 90 days before the general elections. This narrative of party hopping is not in existence. Nobody is compelling you to be in ODM, the Jubilee Party or Wiper Democratic Movement (WDM). Today, you can announce to your voter that come the next general elections, you will stand as an independent candidate. Why do you want to hang on the coat of Hon. Kalonzo Musyoka, Hon. Raila Odinga, Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta or Hon. William Ruto and yet you call yourself a party hopper? You either choose to work with those leaders in their parties or you take my route and subscribe to the clan elders."
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