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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/690502/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to this Elections Laws (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly No. 37 of 2016). At the outset, I support this Bill. I know we have a big challenge when it comes to issues of political parties, but we must make choices and choices have consequences. It is not that people are being prevented from joining any political party because in the Bill of Rights, that is protected. Anybody can belong to any party, but you must make a choice on the party you want to belong. Just as the Mover of the Bill, the Leader of the Majority Party, has put it, when parties are formed, occasionally, we have had members who go for nomination when they have other certificates in the pocket. Just to make fun, one Hon. Member today was saying that he has two certificates from TIP TIP. Unfortunately, TIP TIP has already joined the Jubilee Party. So, the two certificates are now redundant. Those are the challenges. When you go with such a fellow to the nominations, after you have defeated him, he vies with another party in the general elections. This creates a lot of nuisance. In any case, if you want to go for elections, get your party and then let us have IEBC conduct nominations and everybody competes in a fair field. This country has a record of people even killing one another during nominations. For example, Hon. Kaluma and Hon. Wanga had problems until Hon. Kaluma had to agree to work under Hon. Wanga and things are now moving in the right way."
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