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    "id": 946223,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Osotsi",
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    "content": "Office of the Registrar of Political Parties. We cannot have proper democratic parties in this country, if we do not have a proper process for administration and management of this Office. One of the challenges we have at that office is lack of capacity and funding. I propose that we increase from 5 per cent to 10 per cent so that we can have formidable parties in this country and promote democracy. The Committee should rethink the funding of political parties to make it fair and objective and remove all the ambiguities. For example, it has not adequately catered for parties which are in a coalition. If we are in a coalition, how do we share the money that comes to our coalition? That has to be clarified. The other bit is on the issue the IEBC which should ensure that the list submitted by political parties seeking to participate in parliamentary election must comply with Articles 54(2) and 81(b) of the Constitution. I agree with that, but there will be a challenge in this case. The challenge is very simple for a political party to comply. We will just look for areas where we are not popular and give people free tickets and put them on the list. That will not help us to achieve what we want to achieve here. We need to do a lot more to tighten this requirement because parties will easily comply. We will then achieve what we want to achieve in terms of getting persons with disabilities or other persons with special interest coming to Parliament or going to the county assemblies. I will come up with suggestions on amendments to the Committee on this one. I also want the Committee to also look at discriminatory sections in the Elections Act and the Political Parties Act affecting persons who are…"
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