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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Motion. First of all, I want to begin by thanking this Committee for a good job done over the last three years. I think when the time comes, history shall remember you and you shall be judged right. I support the list of the nominees because the whole idea of dispute resolution is a very welcome idea and it is in line with changing times of our society, especially in the light of the new Constitution. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there have been conflicts in political parties and, usually, the answer is that people run away and go to the Registrar of Political Parties to register another political party. I think over almost 20 years, the end result is that we have not been able to force democracy from within political parties. So, this Tribunal, alongside the Political Parties Act, is going to rid this country of briefcase parties and the one-man-show political parties. I think that democracy is needed. I do not think the answer is always running away; the easy way out of undemocratic scenarios is to run away and go to the one which you think you can control and further the undemocratic tendencies. So, I think this will force people to talk and something in the middle is what I think will suffice in our political parties. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have too many political parties. I meet some of them even in corridors – the briefcase party holders – you talk to them about ideologies of their parties and there is nothing! They are vehicles to intimidate the electioneering process when the time comes. You meet many of them when you are going to present your papers wherever you present them in your constituencies, and you find somebody standing there with certificates which are blank. I say this as somebody who has gone through this experience. In the last elections, we went through nominations and the same people you defeated in one nomination are the"
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