Judith Ramaita Pareno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 May 2019 in Senate: Today I was reminded of how we were struggling here when the then Jubilee Coalition was mutilating the electoral laws, so that when we went to repeat the elections on 26th of October, the laws were completely mutilated. I was on record saying it would haunt them. It is already haunting others and they are already suffering. In fact, as we sit here, it is now another team that is ―resisting.‖ view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: Those who thought they were in the comfort zone because of the manipulations they did in 2017 are now feeling the heat. view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is not about the laws in this country; it is about the goodwill to do the right thing. If you have lost in the elections, accept and go home. This is probably why we now need a law that ensures that there is no winner-takes-it–all. This will ensure that you do not even struggle, because at the end of the day, you will not take it all. To me, this is a good law. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we also need to think about the people we put in that IEBC. Looking at the current ... view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: We need to put the right people in place; people who are ready to die for this country. After all, they are dying anyway, even when they have not done anything. Some of them lost their lives. At the end of the day, we ended up losing more because we do not want to do the right thing. view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: The system that was in place was partially manual and partially electronic. We have moved a long way from those days when we had nothing electronic to a system that is almost good. What did we do? We now came up with ―computer-generated leaders‖ and, as a result, we are suffering up to date. You can tell which leaders are ―computer- generated;‖ they are never there when they are supposed to be serving the people. We end up creating ―computer-generated‖ leaders instead of looking at what we have voted for and bringing back that server that was never there anyway. ... view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: The results that some of us have, of two individuals, were just manipulated right here, and the actual results were left there. At the end of the day, however much we speak of these Amendments, if we do not want to have a good country and good electoral systems, it will never be. We have the forms and the systems that are being proposed. We have the result forms, the tallying sheets, and the provision for everybody including agents to sign. What happened? Some agents were so thoroughly beaten and assaulted that they could not even append their signatures. We ... view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the issue of having agents to sign is provided for, but we create an environment that does not allow us to even have these systems that we are proposing right now. There is also a provision for one to refuse to sign because it is not a correct result, and to record an objection. We also have the law that says that you fill those forms and the results are even pinned at the door, but those provisions are violated. In fact, we have had cases where they pin on the door a different result and ... view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: be crazy. One decides that they must get it by all means, including people losing their lives. In the year 2017, we almost lost this country. view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support any amendment that improves on the systems we have, but we have a lot of homework to do. I am looking forward to a referendum that will include electoral system reforms; maybe we will just find a way to strengthen them. We already did so much, yet it was abused. We might still do so much and it still becomes abused. view