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    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "same clause. If you say: “all persons including special interest groups,” the aspect of disability disappears. You are also including women there. There is nothing special in publishing materials in a way that is accessible to women. They do not have physical disability. Those are the few areas that we need to look at. Clause 9 addresses the Political Parties Fund. Clause 9(1)(a) talks about 20 per cent of the Fund being distributed proportionately to political parties based on the number of candidates of the party from the special interest groups elected. That is acceptable. It will be done after elections. You can work out what proportion that is in that group. In Clause 9(2)(a), it says that a political party shall be entitled to receive funding from the Fund if not more than two-thirds of its registered office bearers are of the same gender. The office bearers are elected. The parties will have a lot of difficulty in ensuring that they are two-thirds. If you include governors and MCAs, they are all elected. How will you, as a party, ensure that you have such a ratio? If you go to the Elections Act, you will get the same thing on numbers. One-third of its nominees for parliamentary and county assembly elections are supposed to be of either gender. What nomination process are you going to use? You cannot get such a ratio through an elective process in nomination. I support the Bill. The Committee has done a lot of work, but it is suffering from defects that arise from the Constitution. The Committee can, as this process continues, help this House by going through the Constitution and getting areas that need to be corrected, so that they are made part of this Bill. Everyone has agreed on the clause on violence. There is no doubt that when violence occurs during elections, women are disadvantaged. We agree on that. I support that bit. With those remarks, I support the Bill."
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