{"id":79575,"date":"2024-08-17T09:13:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T09:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/petition-challenging-supreme-court-advisory-on-dissolution-of-parliament-to-be-mentioned-next-month\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T09:13:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T09:13:45","slug":"petition-challenging-supreme-court-advisory-on-dissolution-of-parliament-to-be-mentioned-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/petition-challenging-supreme-court-advisory-on-dissolution-of-parliament-to-be-mentioned-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition challenging Supreme Court advisory on dissolution of parliament to be mentioned next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 17 \u2013 A petition challenging the Supreme Court advisory seeking the dissolution of Parliament will be mentioned next month. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is after a five-judge bench was constituted to hear the consolidated petitions against the advisory opinion on a priority basis. <\/p>\n<p>In September 21, 2020, Chief Justice emeritus David Maraga advised the President to dissolve Parliament for failure to enact legislation required to implement the two-thirds gender representation principle.<\/p>\n<p>This is after he received received six petitions seeking advise to dissolve parliament pursuant to Article 261(7) as read with Articles 27(3) &amp; (8), 81(b) and 100 of the Constitution, on account of failure to enact legislation giving effect to the principle in Article 81(b), popularly known as the two-thirds Gender Rule.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 17 \u2013 A petition challenging the Supreme Court advisory seeking the dissolution of Parliament will be mentioned next month. This is after a five-judge bench was constituted to hear the consolidated petitions against the advisory opinion on a priority basis. In September 21, 2020, Chief Justice emeritus David Maraga advised the President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}