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    "id": 946167,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "The Bill also lays down the criteria for qualification. It provides that for a political party to be entitled to these funds, it should have, at least, five elected Members of Parliament, one elected governor and 12 elected MCAs. That is a lower threshold than it is the case now in the Political Parties Act. Further, the Bill seeks to amend Section 26 to specify the items to which the money allocated to political parties for the promotion of special interest groups should be used for. It specified how political parties apply money that is intended for special interest groups. The Bill seeks to amend Section 29 to require that when a political party publishes its income and expenditure at the end of the year, it includes details about the amount allocated and expended on each category of special interest groups. The Bill also introduces a new Section 30 to require political parties to submit to the Registrar of Political Parties at the end of every financial year, a report of its activities that have gone to the promotion of special interest groups in Parliament and in county assemblies. The Bill also seeks to amend Section 49 of the Political Parties Act to provide the formula for the distribution of the 20 per cent that has been left for political parties according to the number of special interest group members elected into Parliament from each party. In other words, the Bill seeks to provide a formula for rewarding those parties that will have helped persons falling within the definition of special interest groups to come to Parliament and the county assembly. It is an incentive in other words. Finally, on that Act, the Bill seeks to amend the First Schedule of the Code of Conduct of political parties to impose an obligation on the political parties not only to respect the right of all persons to political process, but also requires parties to protect that right and to ensure that all persons, including special interest groups, participate in electoral processes. In addition, the Bill seeks to amend the Elections Act, in Section 13, to require political parties participating in elections to ensure that during party nominations, at least, one-third of the candidates who go for primaries are of either gender and five percent are persons with disabilities. These are not the persons who will have to be elected. Political parties will be required to ensure that in the party lists of those going to take part in your nominations, there are persons falling under the definition of Article 100. We believe that when you do that, there is a chance for those who are already in the list to be elected as opposed to the case where they are left to be on their own. Hon. Speaker, it also seeks to oblige the IEBC not to accept a list of candidates nominated by political parties unless that criterion is complied with. The Bill also amends Section 35 of the Elections Act to require the IEBC to ensure that the list is accompanied with a statutory declaration signed by a person authorised by the party to certify that the candidates who are nominated were actually nominated by the party. Minutes of the Party Selections Board (PSB) should accompany it, so that we do not have other groups sitting and coming up with a list like may have happened within some political parties before. I can see Mhe. Mbadi is in agreement with that. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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