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    "id": 944769,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "Another challenge I have observed is the changes or amendments proposed to the Elections Act. Here, the proposal is that political parties are supposed to ensure that one-third of the nominees to Parliament or county assemblies are of either gender. I am the organising secretary of the third largest party in the country and there is no formula you can use to do this. This House has attempted to pass the two-thirds gender rule for the longest time and it has been very difficult. So, how do you tell a political party to decide that a third must be of either gender? What formula will they use? Yes, we know the numbers if we have 100, then it means 33 point something must be from either gender. But how do you determine the people that will vie? When people are vying for political office and nominations are through a free and fair electoral process, then you cannot stop men from vying for certain positions. I think this is a real challenge. I do not know whether there is a proposal on how a political party can do this and I do not think it works for me. I wish to touch on the proposal of five per cent of nominees being people living with disability. In my political party, we have people living with disabilities who competed and won political office and there are those we nominated. But when five per cent of the nominees whose list will be given to the IEBC for competition must be people living with disabilities, then how do you determine this and make it happen? Who do you block so that the special interest groups can get an advantage? In this country, for those who go into office through nomination, it is very clear that we give more opportunity to special interest groups. When it comes to elective office and competition, this is an area I would have a problem supporting. Otherwise, the general idea and the intent of the Bill is basically positive. With those remarks, I support."
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