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    "content": "legislations, that reigns supreme over the so called decisions of the court. I say so because I want people to understand the context of the Supreme Court 2013 Judgement. There was a gap which may have been explained by the Supreme Court. However, the current regulations which have been made under the Elections Act clarify all the ambiguities concerning withdrawal of a candidate and also the announcement of a particular candidate as the winner. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am aware that some mischievous fellow may go to court and try to block these proposed amendments. For the abundance of caution, let us pass this Bill very fast and then the President holds on before he assents to it until on 25th October, 2017 so that the effort of those planning to go to court to obtain some funny court orders, is thwarted. That is just a piece of advice to my dear fellow politicians in our coalition. Finally, when you look at the totality of other amendments which are contained in this Bill, none of them offends the Constitution. In fact, some of them have been obtained from a judgement which was sought by NASA and came as a result of some serious submissions that were made in the Supreme Court by NASA. Take, for instance, the one concerning punishment of the returning officers where penalties are enhanced under the law. It is NASA that went to the Supreme Court to claim that there were forms that were not signed, some did not have security features and others did not have the stamp of the IEBC. What do we do? Surely, unless the so called NASA brigade wanted a situation where we have a repeat election and then they sweet talked some officials of the IEBC not to sign some forms, then we must do what we ought to do. If they were very serious and determined in their submissions, they should be celebrating these proposals. They are the ones who made them in the court. We are just trying to rectify. I saw the memorandum of the IEBC before the Committee that brought these amendments. That memorandum tended to support a vast majority of these amendments. Therefore, if at all the IEBC is in support of these amendments, who are we not to support them? I support."
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