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    "id": 973937,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/973937/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": " Hon Temporary Deputy Chairman, these amendments seek to ensure that political parties are left to make their own determination on how they should conduct their meetings and reach their decisions in relation to submission of party lists. This is administrative and is found in the parties’ constitutions. We cannot legislate on such aspects. This is an administrative matter. Secondly, this is even found in the Political Parties Act No.11 of 2011. I will raise it in the House Business Committee tonight. Our legal team must always look at the relevant existing Acts before they approve an amendment for a Member. Hon. Osotsi’s amendment is about a situation where one is nominated by a party to sit in Parliament and then mid-term, he goes against the interests of the party. He wants us to amend the law so that a party does not remove such Member from the House. We want party discipline. So, I tell Hon. Osotsi that these are matters you will find within ODM and Jubilee Party constitutions. Let us not over-legislate. Please, I beg you to withdraw the amendment because it is not in the interest of political parties. What you are trying to tell us is we must provide minutes which are already there."
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