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    "speaker_name": "Mathare, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Oluoch",
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    "content": "I also want to bring to your attention the issue of women. Notwithstanding the fact that I have said that this Bill is not about women, let us consider that provision for a moment. The 11th Parliament attempted to do two pieces of legislations to put into place the two-thirds gender rule and we failed. The 12th Parliament, recently, I think in the Second Session, attempted to do this and we failed. Now the question arises. I am going back to the concerns about Hon. Otiende Amollo that we may need to bite the bullet and go back to the Constitution itself and confront the questions and contradictions that are there. I want to bring to the attention of the House that as we wait to confront that which is in the Constitution in terms of contraction, remember that we have tried a constitutional amendment in respect of the two-thirds gender rule that was brought by the Leader of the Majority Party and you needed to raise two-thirds in order to meet that threshold. So, the questions that this House has to deal with against a petition and a possible writ by the Chief Justice for the dissolution of this House is whether we should wait. Article 100 provided us with the opportunity to deal with it. As we deal with other minorities and other categories in that provision, we should also sanitise and deal with the question and the deficit on the issue of the two-thirds gender rule."
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