Tag Archive: elected presidency

Chee Soon Juan: By All Means, Let’s Continue To Humiliate Our Minority Citizens

THE SAGA OVER the Elected Presidency (EP) has again, thanks to the Prime Minister, dredged up the hideous truth that our political system is indefensibly undergirded by racialist and racist thinking. The official line of the EP rhapsodised about the…
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Commentary: We Didn’t Like #PE2017, But We Didn’t Resist, Either

Finally, Singapore has a female president. A woman as our head of state. Her photo will hang in every government building, not as the benevolently smiling wife, but as the boss. I would have expected myself to be bloody ecstatic….
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Salleh Marican: I Am Disappointed That The PEC Committee Did Not See Me Fit

Mainstream media CNA stated that the reason Second Chance CEO Salleh Marican did not qualify as his firm was “considerably below” the S$500 million shareholders’ equity required. But how many people, even other races, would have qualified in handling over…
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SDP On EP Walkover: PAP’s Contempt For Our Constitution And Our Flag Must Be Roundly Condemned

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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Singapore High Commissioner Rebutted Utusan Malaysia’s Article On Elected Presidency And Claim That President Is Only “Symbolic”

The Republic’s High Commissioner to Malaysia has rebutted “false assertions” that Utusan Malaysia made in a recent commentary on Singapore’s Elected Presidency. The article, which was published on Monday (Aug 14) in the Malay-language newspaper, described the Elected President’s role…
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