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    "id": 726808,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/726808/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kajuju",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Florence Kajuju",
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    "content": "In our Constitution, we talk about principles of equity and the rule of law and matters of gender equality. This House was expected to have satisfied the constitutional requirements of the two-thirds gender rule, but I note with concern that much as the President lobbied Members of this Parliament to ensure that we pass the law that would have seen the 12th Parliament comply with the two-thirds gender rule, that never came to be. I congratulate the women Members of this Parliament, namely, the National Assembly and the Senate, for doing all they could to ensure that a Bill was passed to ensure compliance of the two- thirds gender rule, even though it never came to pass. As late as this week, that Bill was defeated in the Senate. It is unfortunate, disappointing and failure on our part. I only pray and believe that it is going to happen. There has not been any amendment to the Constitution that then stops that law from being adhered to."
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