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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am very concerned about the vote we are about to take. Allow me a minute or two to say that for the first time, I will request that you do something unusual, particularly under Standing Order No. 1 because of the following reasons. One, there is a pending Petition, although we are going for elections and we are not worried, to wind up the House. We have told the House, and I have been participating in the legal process, that we are going to take a vote. Therefore, we have requested the Judiciary to give us time to take a vote. This Bill was lost by five votes in December. You had directed that we vote on 5th January. On that day, this Bill was not in the Order Paper and all these benches were full. Mr. Speaker, Sir, even now I can see that we will not meet the threshold. It will be of great tragedy for this Senate and the law that we will not have achieved the one-third gender rule. I plead that we find a method that is both legal and real to the extent that you do not call the vote. Under Standing Order No. 63(3), the condition is that if you do not direct a further vote or if after such vote, the fixed majority is not obtained, I plead with you to defer this order to either tomorrow or---. I am alive to the fact that the Whips of this House have not asked us to come and vote. Even if they did, they never mentioned that we need 45 Senators seated here. The threshold is very high. Lastly, I am aware that some of my colleagues are in Jeevanjee Gardens launching a very big party. Therefore, I want you to take public notice of these facts and defer the vote for this particular issue in view of its constitutional significance."
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