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    "id": 945073,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/945073/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Kenyan society. Let us be civil. If we are civil and enforce these laws, we may need to do very little to have gender parity at the ballot. Hon. Speaker, there is something very interesting that you mentioned. I saw it in Clause 17. Already the Constitution has provided for affirmative action in the county assembly. So, when you say that political parties should send their list of those who are supposed to participate in elections and that one third of political parties’ nominees for parliamentary and county assembly elections should be of either gender, I do not know why it is necessary even for the county assemblies. Maybe, it is to help us cut the cost so that some are elected and, in the process, we reduce the number of nominated members of county assemblies (MCAs). But we have no problem in county assemblies. We have to do something. That is why I am accommodating this. The problem we will encounter is how we will ensure that a third of the candidates are of either gender. What if the other gender shies away from your political party? What would you do if those coming out to run for the seat are not a third of one gender? What happens? Do you stop fielding candidates or do you reduce the number of candidates you are fielding? That baffles me. Probably, what parties will do is to look for women all over the place where they know they do not have strength, areas where the party is not strong and we will field women candidates there knowing well that they will not win. I do not know if this will help in actualizing this provision."
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