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"speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am opposed to this amendment partly because of the ambiguity contained within it. If you look at Section 25(1), which talks about distribution, the provisions of sub-section 2 on the conditions for a party to receive money are even worse. The party has to have two-thirds in terms of office bearers, which is the same two-thirds rule that we have been unable to legislate on in this House. It also says that the party should have a party nomination list. There are a lot of things there. The party has to have at least a governor, five elected Members of Parliament and 12 elected Members of county assemblies. You are creating a hurdle that a party could actually win the presidential seat and miss this, and then they cannot participate in the Political Parties Fund. Perhaps, Hon. Kioni, this may be well meaning but the drafting has changed it all. Perhaps it may need to be withdrawn and then redrafted afresh as an amendment to the Political Parties Act. I am also very concerned that we are using one Act to amend another Act instead of amending the main Act itself. There have been rulings on that yet we are doing it. It is not a Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. This is a standalone Bill but we are now using it to amend other Acts of Parliament instead of going to those particular Acts, especially on matters political. We need to be very careful when we touch on the Political Parties Act. Let us come here with proper amendments to the Political Parties Act so that we look at in totality rather than through the issue of special interest groups and then we end up amending the funding mechanism of political parties. I oppose."
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