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    "id": 770498,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in accordance with Rule 16 of the EALA Rules, the Joint Select Committee on Election of EALA Members has powers to reject any name for the reasons that have been stipulated. Rule 16 gives the Committee powers to reject a candidate without necessarily asking for a replacement, if it is apparent that after rejecting the candidate, the candidates remaining on the list will not affect the election based on the various shades of opinion. The question to be answered is: If you reject certain names, will the names remaining on the list still capture all the dynamics of regional balance, gender and age? If that is the case, you move on. If after rejecting certain names the list left will not allow this House to exercise its discretion in doing elections, if it will not allow this House to attain those demographics and dynamics, the Joint Committee can order for a fresh nomination. I want to make it very clear that the Committee’s decision to reject the two nominees who happen to be from the female gender, does not affect the list. The NASA Coalition had nominated six women and their entitlement is one woman. Therefore, if you reject one, you can still get one out of the five. The Jubilee side nominated seven women and they are entitled to two. After we rejected one woman, we remained with six women. We can get the two women from the six remaining nominees. Therefore, there was no need of ordering for fresh nominations. The Joint Committee held only three sittings because we were very thorough. We sat up to around 6.00 p.m. We wanted to expedite the election of the EALA Members because we did not want to hold EALA in abeyance. After the nominations of 29th November, which was done The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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