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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I want to assure the Senators, especially the Senate Majority Leader that we cannot be members of a sect. In fact, I was raising a point of order whether it was in order for him, in the first place, to purport to indicate that anybody wearing a headscarf is a sect member? So, I want to say that, that was really out of what we want to say. Madam Temporary Speaker, we are just making a statement. In this country, you have the same rights that everybody else has of either gender. We are not talking about two-thirds as just affecting the women. It is two-thirds of either gender. So, for us we are saying that we are making a statement to rope you in. So, if this statement has touched male Senators that these female Senators and ladies from the National Assembly are making a statement to appeal to men that it is time we changed on the two-thirds gender rule. I came from the observation of elections in Rwanda. They had a special day to dedicate to elections that touch on women. They had a special day to dedicate to youth and people with disabilities. At the end of the day, everybody felt he had been given a chance. How did it translate? In fact, it has gone up to 67 per cent. The women who were elected in Rwanda in the just concluded election rose up from 64 per cent to 67 per cent. I must say that I was proud to see that country conduct the election in the manner that it did. We are not just talking about elections, we are talking about space for all of us. Can we have the two-thirds gender rule? This is because it says, not either of the gender should be more than two-thirds. It does not discriminate against men. We are asking our brothers to join us in this statement. It is an appeal."
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