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"content": "Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No.30 relating to hours of meeting, this House resolves not to hold a Sitting on Tuesday, May 23, 2017. As Members are aware, on 23rd May, 2017, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), and as per its election calendar, will be holding a pre-nomination meeting with the aspirants at all county and constituency levels. This is in accordance with the IEBC calendar on Elections 2017. In this regard, no Member will be available to transact business in this House on that day according to the leadership and the House Business Committee. It is for this reason that I am moving this Motion. That is where Members are taken through the regulations, the code of conduct and what they are supposed to present on the day they are supposed to present their nomination papers, which will be a week or eight or nine days after that. I have spoken to a number of Members during the week and all of them have shown indication that they really want to attend that constituency and county level IEBC briefing. It will look very bad if our competitors are there and we are not there. It will send a very bad signal. We have agreed that we bring this Procedural Motion so that, only on that day of Tuesday, 23rd May 2017, we can allow our membership to go and attend the IEBC pre-nomination briefing for all candidates at constituency and county level. I beg to move and ask the Whip of the Minority Party, Hon. Mwadeghu - the likely incoming Governor for Taita Taveta - to second."
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