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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, please, allow me to continue. I rise to support this Motion and congratulate Sen. Dullo for taking her time to ensure that the very rules for which a legitimate presidential election was nullified - for lack of what was called simplicity, accountability, credibility and verifiability - are put in place. As I mentioned earlier on, rules, laws and policies are not an end in themselves. They should serve the object for which they were enacted, both in form, substance in spirit and in the letter. Rules and laws should have a continuous improvement element to them because no rule, law or policy is perfect. Sen. Dullo took her time to study the form and substance of the laws that govern our elections and identify key areas of lacunas that we faced and continue to face as a country. Perhaps this will not be the last time this House will be debating similar amendments for this or even other laws. I have looked and read each section of the election related Act 2011 and each of the amendments that have been introduced. For example, the amendment to Section (29), Section 6 (9) of the Election Act 2011 and all the subsequent amendments have improved the ambiguity and the mischief for people to manipulate or curtail the process. Bearing in mind that laws, regulations and policies are to serve higher purpose for which they are conceived, it is important for us to do the right thing. Each and every one of these amendments will contribute greatly towards improving our electoral laws and make sure there is accountability, verifiability and credibility in our elections. There is also no doubt that reforms are required as articulated by the Supreme Court Judges in their ruling when they nullified the presidential election. Who is best suited to do this than elected Members of Parliament to whom the power of the people has been delegated and whose job it is to do this? It is our job as elected Members of Parliament in both Houses to legislate and to put in place systems and processes that serve the people of this country. What Sen. Dullo has done is take this mandate that is"
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