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    "id": 702552,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kombe",
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        "id": 250,
        "legal_name": "Harrison Garama Kombe",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to oppose the Bill. With all due respect, I am of the opinion that we would rather reduce the number of constituencies to the original 210. If we decide to go that way we will have 210 constituencies plus 47 county Members of Parliament. That will give us 257 Members. One-third of that comes to around 85.667, which is approximately 86. Out of 86 women we need to have in this House, we already have 47 of them. That brings the number down to 39. Assuming that the ladies have gone for it and they manage to beat, at least, 16 men like they did previously, we shall have a deficit of 23 female Members of Parliament and the 23 ladies can be nominated on party strength. There we are. We meet the two-thirds gender rule. If we decide to go the other way round and maintain the 12 nominations then we will have a House of 269 Members. One-third of that gives us approximately 90. From 90, we subtract 47 and we are left with 43. Out of 43, assuming again the ladies have gone for it, and they beat this time 20 men, we shall have a deficit of 23 to add to that. I know my friend, Hon. Duale who is here does not understand what I am saying because of his selfishness. Let us not be selfish. The ladies are also people ---"
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