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  • Chee Soon Juan: Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC By-Election Needed

    Chee Soon Juan: Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC By-Election Needed

    It is bad enough that the PAP has reserved the Presidential Election and that Mdm Halimah Yacob has become the President without a contest. At the same time, Mdm Halimah has left the Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC short of an MP and without a minority representative. Then the PAP says that there is no need for a by-election to fill her seat. This is an abuse of power. The PAP sees itself bigger than Singapore and continues to do as it pleases. Such unchecked control endangers the future of this nation.

    This is why the SDP has initiated legal action to ask the court to rule on the matter of a by-election when an MP vacates his/her seat.
    http://yoursdp.org/…/sdp_files_lawsuit_agai…/2017-09-13-6194 But such action entails financial costs and no one party has the means to shoulder such an expense by itself.

    We, therefore, call on all Singaporeans to contribute to this cause. Please do your part and financially support the effort to stop the PAP from continuing its abuse of power. If everyone does a little, our load will lighten and the role of holding the PAP accountable made more effective. So please donate as well as help us spread this message far and wide. Remember, we’re all in this together. You can do so online, through bank transfers or cheques. Please click here: http://yoursdp.org/index/donate/0-12

     

    Source: Chee Soon Juan

  • Damanhuri Abas: Here’s How By-Election Should Be Conducted For Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC

    Damanhuri Abas: Here’s How By-Election Should Be Conducted For Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC

    The Government must call a GRC By-election for MYT to be true to its stated desire to ensure equal Minority representation as it robustly claimed was the basis for having a reserved PE exclusive for Malays. Less it exposes its own hypocrisy to say one thing but do another for clear political interest. Enough of short-changing the Malays pretending to be benevolent when in truth they manipulate the rules and keep moving the goalpost for 52 years.

    If additional cost incurred for one is the concern as some commentators expressed, here is how to simply overcome that. They can always conduct the By-election together with the PE. It only involves MYT GRC and residence from the constituencies affected can go to the polls on that day to vote twice, both for a PE and the MPs for their GRC. Enough time to do so now. Imaginary problem solved. Lets have a By-Election in MYT together with the PE!!

     

    Source: Damanhuri Bin Abas

  • By-Election In Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC

    By-Election In Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC

    The Secretary-General of Singapore’s Democratic Party, Chee Soon Juan has written a letter addressed to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to question him whether a by-election will be held at Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC, following Halimah Yacob’s resignation.The full letter is attached below.

  • Message To Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC Residents; Support And Sign Petition To Call For By-Elections

    Message To Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC Residents; Support And Sign Petition To Call For By-Elections

    All prepared and ready for Petition drive this coming Saturday, 12th August 2017.

    We will be doing house to house visit in the Marsiling ward of former MP, Halimah Yacob, and explain to residents on the importance to call for a By-Election.

    If you are a resident and a voter under Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC, and wants to sign the petition to call for a By-Election, do pm me for further details.

    This is an initiative by residents for residents.

    Thank You!

     

    Source: Abdul Salim Harun

  • No By-Elections; Strong Indication Of PAP’s Inability To Honour Championing Of Minority Representation

    No By-Elections; Strong Indication Of PAP’s Inability To Honour Championing Of Minority Representation

    Halimah Yacob resigned today from her seat of Marsiling (red) and as the 7th Speaker of Parliament.

    Thanks to a question raised by WP MP Pritam Singh in Parliament, we now know that the Prime Minister will not call for a by-election in Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC (shaded below).

    This is very worrying on two fronts.

    Firstly, this 4-member GRC is, by law, one of the GRCs reserved for Malay minority candidates presumably because of its higher Malay population. With Halimah’s departure, the GRC will have no minority MPs at all. Many of us may not agree with the mechanics or even the basis of the GRC system and may wish to see it reformed. Nonetheless, not calling for a by-election to reinstate a minority Member would speak volumes about the PAP’s commitment to playing by its own rules in its own game that is the much-vaunted GRC system.

    Secondly, the PM’s intention to appoint a Grassroots Advisor in Marsiling ward, instead of calling for a by-election, raises very unsettling questions about how the Government recognises the legitimacy and authority of elected MPs. Does this mean that Government agencies will now accord Grassroots Advisors with as much recognition as elected MPs when residents attend Meet-the-People Sessions seeking help? Does this mean that these unelected Grassroots Advisors can take on other roles that presumably only MPs can undertake? If the answer to these questions is no, then without a by-election, Marsiling-Yew Tee residents are being short-changed. If the answer is yes, it would be even worse, for this would be an admission that the Government can appoint a PAP member to be the Grassroots Advisor for Marsiling with inordinate power and authority, without a single vote having been cast for that person by Singaporeans living there. This would be unsurprising given that PAP candidates who lose in Opposition wards are immediately appointed as the Grassroots Advisors for these wards after each General Election.

    Unsurprising, but inherently unfair to voters.

    Given that we are less than half-way through the term of the present Parliament, not calling for a by-election in Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC would be an affront to parliamentary democracy in Singapore, and would be a strong indication of the PAP’s inability to honour its own supposed status of being a champion of minority representation.

    Instead, we are faced with a reserved Presidential Election which harms our social fabric more than it purports to help it, because it may just entrench the idea in people’s minds that minorities are unelectable by way of their own merits alone. How does this advance our progress as a nation?

    (To find out more about how the ward-level layer was made, visit my blog at: https://mappedmusings.wordpress.com/…/mapping-our-home-mapp…. Designed with Map Box.)

     

    Source: Yudhishthra Nathan