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    "id": 8868,
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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Minister was present in Parliament when the Political Parties Act and the Elections Act both of 2011 were passed. At that time, there was opposition by Members of this House to allow or to make it mandatory for parties to nominate one-third women among the people they present for elections. Why would we oppose a simpler mechanism to fulfill the gender quarter, and then go to the amendment of the Constitution? The reasons why Kenyans wanted a new Constitution is because they felt that the old document had been so violated by frivolous amendments that it had ceased to resemble the document they knew. We, in this Parliament, must be very careful not to develop a culture where anything we do not like, makes us initiate a constitutional amendment. The incumbency has lost the power of deciding an election date. They want to get it just one more time through the backdoor, by dictating the date to be in December, through this Constitution."
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