Singapore Democrats The walkover of the Presidential Election comes as no surprise. The PAP had changed the rules and revised the criteria of the Elected Presidency to pave the way for Ms Halimah Yacob to assume the office. Nevertheless, this…
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Barely minutes after former Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob was confirmed on Monday (11 September) as the only eligible candidate for this year’s Presidential Election (PE), a number of Singaporeans began using the hashtag #notmypresident in their social media posts….
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In a perverse way, the outcome of the first Reserved Presidency, a non-event, was a fitting finale to the reserved presidential election (which has now become a non-election). How so? * The Malay community never asked for a Malay president,…
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So it is a walkover. Singaporeans will not need to vote for their next President. True to form; a long, iniquitous history of rigging the system. From third world to first economically, and the reverse politically–the country’s lurched from minimalist…
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Singaporeans will not have to vote for their new President as only one Certificate of Eligibility has been issued. This was announced by the Elections Department on Monday (Sep 11) in a press release reproduced below: Five individuals applied for…
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