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    "id": 754311,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sialai",
    "speaker_title": "The Clerk of the National Assembly",
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    "content": "The House is reminded that this two-thirds threshold is not a constitutional requirement, and it was never the intention of the framers of the Constitution to say that it has to be two-thirds. Otherwise, it should have been clearly stated. Article 106 of the Constitution does not say that. It is a procedural step to ease the election of a Speaker on the first round of ballot. In fact, if your votes result in attainment of two-thirds in the first round, we will not go to the subsequent ballot. By practice, it has always happened. For your information Members, this Standing Order was reviewed previously. It used to be three times. You would go the first time, and if you do not get the two-thirds, you go for the second time. If you do not get the two-thirds in the second time, the last final and the third one was the one that would determine the winner. However, in our case, it ends in the second round. The procedural threshold applies only to the first round of voting and does not affect the quorum required for the commencement of this Sitting and the election."
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