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"content": "will come out and really progress so fast that we shall be together in the Senate. I am pleased that he is here. On the voting day, I would want the secretariat to at least give us some indication on the CVs of these people we are voting for so that we can make an informed choice on whom we are electing. The second comment about voting; I heard the Senate Majority Leader say that there will be different colors for the different parties. If it is Jubilee, it only has five votes and National Super Alliance (NASA), four votes. At the end of the day, we want five representing Jubilee and four, NASA. I do not know whether that is in the rules. I have not actually read the rules. I do not know whether we cannot adopt the United Nations (UN) system of voting when it comes to these issues. I have participated in the voting at the UN General Assembly quite a number of times. The last one was as late as November last year, when I was re-elected to the International Law Commission. There, each region is allocated the number. From Africa, I think we are seven, Europe, five, Asia, eight, and so on. However, when it comes to voting, they do not have a separate roll for each region for people to vote. All you know is that each country has the total number of votes as required. In this case of International Law Commission, there are 36 members. So, each country has 36 votes. You vote just on one roll. There is no separation at all. When the vote is counted, they now take into account the five and the four. In other words, when the vote is counted, the top five from Jubilee and the top four from NASA will be elected. This is the way it is done. You do not have different colors for this purpose. You just have one, and people vote. Normally, it happens that you can have two or three rounds of voting. Maybe in that first round, although, for example, Europe got its number, Africa did not. It may have not got its number because of the fact that each member elected must get more than 50 per cent of the votes cast. So, you go on repeating, but at the end of the day, each region has those candidates allocated to it. I am wondering if the system of the voting is in the regulations, maybe it is too late; we shall have different colors. However, if it is not, I would urge the secretariat to try to read the UN practice and even the African Union practice on voting which takes into account that each region must have so many. Here, we will be saying that Jubilee should have five and NASA should have four at the end of the day. So, I would commend that to the secretariat to look into it. As I said earlier, I am glad that this is now happening. I am glad that we had to postpone the adjournment of the National Assembly and the Senate for this very important item. Kenya has not been very good on nominating its candidates in good time. We have delayed the operations of the East African Community (EAC) because of this lateness. I hope that after this, the EAC will move ahead. If I may mention something related to the EAC, I wrote to the Speaker, I would like you to convey to him, and particularly the man from Ingotse, to make sure that this is done. I had mentioned that we should have in this House an ad hoc committee which deals with EAC affairs. I noticed that many of the Bills that come from EALA normally just go to the National Assembly and are approved there. However, they do not consider The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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