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MPs meet to discuss Bills' deadline

MPs will this morning hold a Kamukunji (informal meeting) to build consensus for the approval of a nine-month extension to the August 27 deadline for passage of six bills on implementation of the Constitution.

A Motion to approve an extension must be supported by 233 MPs (two-thirds of the 349 members). If the extension is not secured and the House fails to enact the Bills by August 27, it will invite the intervention of the Judiciary and should Parliament fail to meet the court-stipulated deadlines then the Chief Justice is required by the Constitution to dissolve Parliament.

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