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    "id": 781389,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for your communication and ruling. I am happy that this is a House of rules and we have rules which we must abide by as a Senate. I am happy that the Speaker went through and enlightened this House about the provisions of our rules. So that we understand, Standing Order No.20(1) provides that the second largest party or coalition of parties shall be the Minority Party. I do not want to believe that Members in this Senate do not know that some of us are here by virtue of nomination by the ODM Party. I have been lucky to be nominated twice by the party. I would want to say that this rule recognizes Orange Democratic Movement (ODM as the second largest party in this House. As a very senior member of my party and the Chair of the Election Board, I am not aware of having sat in a parliamentary group meeting to elect the initial leadership that is in this House. Be that as it may, what these rules envisage is an election. These rules also envisage that the second largest party can elect and remove any member from any position in the leadership of this House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am aware that ODM has 20 Senators in this House and all of them came to this House by virtue of a certificate issued by none other than by myself, the Chair of the Election Board of ODM. We did not issue a certificate by the name of the National Super Alliance (NASA) to anybody in this House. So, it is not proper to say that we came in as NASA in as much as we have not disowned NASA. We are simply taking our rightful position in this House and going by the rules as provided for. Out of the 20 Senators in this House, 16 Senators appended their signatures and five Senators gave their apologies as they are not in the country. Of the four Members of the leadership structure that was submitted to this House, the largest Minority Party had only one; the Deputy Minority Leader. I am on record, and Sen. Wetangula knows, that I raised a red card. I said that there is no proper representation in the leadership that has been submitted. The ODM having 20 Senators and the rest of our coalition partners having seven Senators, cannot take all the four positions apart from one. So, if we are doing anything, it is not a divorce because we are not the ones to pronounce divorce at this time. We are simply taking our space as The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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