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    "id": 769859,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/769859/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I beg to second this Motion. I start by congratulating the Deputy Majority Leader for having done an exemplary job. I was listening to her as I was coming here and she has made a very good presentation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we have said over and over again, we are the ones who are holding the EALA from proceeding in the manner in which it should because of the election timelines and the delays that we had because of our elections. Something needs to be done in the next general elections of 2022 so that we do not face the same situation again. It will be important that, after this process is done, that we consult with the EAC partners to be doing this perhaps after the August elections so that we do not have this problem. This is because having the election some months to the general election is really a big problem because everybody is focused on whether they will survive or not. Many of them will have even lost interest in matters legislature and they are talking about being President, being in the Executive or even retiring from politics altogether. Secondly, I would like to note that the rules that we passed here will also need to be revisited in future. This is because they provide room for independent candidates to be allocated a seat based on the number of elected independent persons. Independent candidates in Parliament are independent of each other. You cannot now come and form a political party called Independents because every independent candidate is independent of the other one. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
}