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    "id": 835263,
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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": "Madam Temporary Speaker, we have presented petitions and statements before this House, and I am sure you have come across our citizenry just in the streets and they tell you, “Sen. Pareno, we have a petition.” They give you just a paper and tell you we have this problem. Sometimes we even tell them to go back and put it into the right format of a petition. At the end of the day, there is no procedure, it is like you meet legislators and tell them what you want to do. After listening to the people, you will realise that they want to present a petition to the assembly. This Bill intends to bring in orderliness through which petitions can be presented to the county assembly. Having put the public participation as a core principle in our Constitution and in our business, these people can therefore communicate to Parliament, to the county assembly and to any other body through petitions but in an orderly manner. So, we are now providing for the county assemblies because other bodies probably have other ways through which the petitions can be presented to them."
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