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    "id": 946222,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
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    "content": "Another aspect is the proposal that 20 per cent will be apportioned among all other parties. This is ambiguous because two parties have been allocated 53 per cent and then all the others remaining with 20 percent. Then it goes further and gives conditions for qualification for you to qualify for the political parties funding. You need five Members of Parliament (MPs), 12 Members of County Assembly (MCAs) and one governor. This will be an advantage to parties that will get more MPs and MCAs, but fail to get a governor. Like the party I belong to has 17 Members of Parliament and over 60 MCAs, but it does not have a governor. So, this particular party will not qualify for this because of the criterion that has been put here. So, what does it mean for the second part? It means that the 20 per cent may end up going to one party so that the two large parties will share 53 per cent and then the remaining 20 per cent goes to one party; maybe FORD Kenya, yet we know FORD Kenya is smaller than other parties we know. The third bit is the 20 per cent to be shared based on the number of candidates with special interest. I have no problem with that. The fourth part is the 5 per cent that should go to the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties for administrative expenses. One of the biggest problems we have in this country, in as far as management of political parties is concerned, is the 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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