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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I had no doubt that my party leader was the deputy presidential candidate. When I speak about NASA, there are other parties like ANC and FORD – K. I am speaking on behalf of the whole coalition. I am also not speaking against ODM. I want that to go into record. I am speaking about coalition arrangements going into the future. This arrangement of NASA is not within the current Political Parties Act. That is what I am speaking to because I have to speak life. In future, there will always be coalitions. Even in 2022, we will form other coalitions to win the presidency because we must get to State House. That arrangement needs to be thought through. As we look at the funding, we must consider coalition arrangements because if you just look at political parties, we disadvantage some of the smaller parties within coalitions. For a growing democracy like ours, coalition arrangements make a lot of sense. For a country like ours where there is a lot of tribalism, coalition arrangements make a lot of sense. If we say that it is each individual party for itself, I can tell you for sure that if WDM – K had a presidential candidate and not a deputy presidential candidate, we would have had the three governors and three senators. We would have gotten all the votes from our backyard. It is something that we need to look at going into the future. I want to finish by talking about political party discipline. Even as we talk about funding, this money that we are talking about also comes from our members. The Act is very clear. Other than the money sent by the Exchequer, even our own contributions go into building our parties. It is unfortunate that if you look at the statements of some of our parties, there are a lot of members who do not contribute the amounts that they signed up to at the point of election. Something needs to be done. If people do not have the discipline to pay the party dues, how do they have the discipline to represent their people? Going forward, it is important that the Registrar of Political Parties cracks the whip. We try many times to report those people who run away with political party funds and it seems like nothing is done. The Registrar needs to crack the whip so that these people can be disciplined properly and we have enough monies to run the affairs of our political parties."
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