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    "id": 826424,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/826424/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
        "slug": "john-mbadi"
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    "content": "The law stipulating how much money should be allocated to political parties is in place. The reason why we decided to put a specific amount of money defined in law is that we did not want the matter of allocating funds to political parties to be at the discretion of the National Treasury. Every time, the National Treasury is part of a Government and there is one political party that will be in power at any particular time. Allowing one political party to determine how much money should be allocated to other competing political parties is not rational. Therefore, I do not understand why the National Treasury is finding it difficult to allocate the 0.3 per cent that is provided for in law to political parties for their running. The reason why, as a country, we decided to allocate funds to run political parties is because we did not want individual to own political parties. We want political parties that exist even beyond or after the political party leaders."
}