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  • SDP Member: Marsiling Residents Indifferent To Halimah’s Presidential Candidacy, Wants By-Election

    SDP Member: Marsiling Residents Indifferent To Halimah’s Presidential Candidacy, Wants By-Election

    We continued our house visits at one of the HDB blocks in Marsiling this evening.

    We asked the residents 2 questions:

    1. The incumbent, Mdm Halimah Yacob, has indicated her interest to contest the next Presidential Election (PE). She claimed that she has received a lot of encouragement & blessings from Marsiling constituents. Are you supportive of her presidential bid?

    Most of the residents we spoke to appeared lukewarm to this question & did not seem really bothered if she would contest or not- let alone support her.

    2. If Mdm Halimah contests the next PE, she will have to resign from the PAP & vacate her parliamentary seat. Do you think a by-election should be called thereafter so that Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC residents have a chance to elect a full slate of 4 new MPs?

    All the residents we spoke to unanimously agreed that a by-election should be called.

    The residents’ sentiments are in sharp contrast to what Minister Chan Chun Sing has said in Parliament (https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/…/no-by-election-if-minor…/).

    In the last General Elections in 2015, the PAP campaigned based on the slogan: “With You, For You, For Singapore”.

    It will be interesting to see how they can continue to keep the above election promise when they deny the voters of Marsiling-Yew Tee their constitutional rights to elect new political representatives via a by-election.

     

    Source: Bryan Lim Boon Heng (林文兴)

  • Mainstream English Media Never Highlight Malay Success Stories, Contribute To Stereotype

    Mainstream English Media Never Highlight Malay Success Stories, Contribute To Stereotype

    The Problem is there was never a HIGHLIGHT about successful Malays in The Straits Times, Sunday Times, Business Times Singapore, are there? . Any stories about Malays who even surpassed other races were only told in our Malay papers.

    I don’t blame other races for not knowing or having doubts that there are successful Malay in Singapore. I am having doubts also….

    What we heard about Malays in the English papers are stories of Malay highest diabetes patient, highest offenders , highest others….best not said. Wallahualam.

    #singaporeanneedtherapy

    #MalayforPresident
    #PresidentMelayuUntukSingapura

     

    Source: Roslinah Rajab

  • Cannot Tell If Someone Is Malay? This Is Your Definitive List Of A Melayu

    Cannot Tell If Someone Is Malay? This Is Your Definitive List Of A Melayu

    So the Presidential election is coming around and suddenly everyone wants to be Melayu. Well, unfortunately this is not really up to you and me. There’s a committee appointed by the Elections Department that decides if someone is Melayu. It is not an easy job.

    So far the candidates not Melayu true blood siol. Not Acehnese, Bugisnese, Boyanese, Javanese Malay. More Pakistan and Indian blood. The only Malay thing is they are Muslims and can speak Malay, in the case of Salleh Marican, not very well.

    So we have come up with this totally serious and not-stereotypical list of traits that make a genuine Melayu:

    1. The Melayu is very musical. Fact: Singapore Idols – all Melayu. They know all the lyrics to the evergreen rock love ballad, Isabella. Even better if they can play the guitar and play percussions.

    2. Speaking of percussions….A Melayu must know how to dikir barat because lets face it, all Melayu students pernah perform dikir barat for Hari Raya concert in school kan?

    3. A Melayu loves his makan. Maybe a little too much. Nasi Ambeng is their favourite food. Not Nasi Briyani. When they become President, don’t forget the Nasi Ambeng. All state dinners at the Istana will be Nasi Ambeng hidang.

    4. After eating all that Nasi Ambeng, what do they do? Of course lepak with their friends at the void deck. This is quality time. Where bonds of friendship are forged. Until the police come and chase them away from the void deck.

    5. So what to do. Find another place to #rilek1corner. Because chilling is life lah bro.

    Do you see the corner?

    So there we have it. So between Halimah Yacob, Salleh Marican and Farid Khan, who is the most Melayu?

     

    Rilek1Corner

    DISCLAIMER: This article is meant to inject some humour into your Tuesday. Don’t take it seriously. Seriously.

  • “Experts” – Halimah Yacob May Be “Strongest” EP Candidate

    “Experts” – Halimah Yacob May Be “Strongest” EP Candidate

    Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob will be a front-runner for the highest office in the land if she decides to throw her hat into the ring, said political analysts interviewed by TODAY.

    Citing her long record of public service, they noted that voters of all races are familiar with her credentials, while the other two presidential hopefuls would have their work cut out seeking to appeal to Singaporeans outside of their community.

    Nevertheless, Mdm Halimah — who said on Sunday that she was thinking about contesting in the polls — could be disadvantaged by her ties with the ruling People’s Action Party, the analysts said, should voters look for independence from the Government in a candidate. Some, like former Nominated Member of Parliament Calvin Cheng, have also questioned Mdm Halimah’s financial acumen, given that the Parliament Speaker does not have the responsibility of managing “huge billion-dollar budgets and hundreds to thousands of civil servants” like a Cabinet Minister.

     

    Starting out as a lawyer, Mdm Halimah, 62, has spent 40 years in the public service, including over three decades in the National Trades Union Congress. Before she became Speaker of Parliament in 2013, she had served as Minister of State at the then-Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports. Dr Singh pointed out that Mdm Halimah has enjoyed solid support from her constituents since she first entered politics in 2001, winning four successive General Elections along the way.

    Describing Mdm Halimah as a “warm, compassionate and humble” person who is “well-loved by her constituents”, Mr Cheng said she has also carried out her duties as Speaker of Parliament “with dignity”.

    However, if Mdm Halimah — who made history as Singapore’s first female Speaker of Parliament — were “deemed to have the necessary skill-sets to guard our financial reserves”, it would “detract from the credibility of recent changes to private-sector eligibility criteria”, Mr Cheng said.

    But other analysts pointed out that the Elected President would be supported by the Council of Presidential Advisers on issues relating to the country’s reserves.

    “I don’t think you will have a person who will check off all the boxes. I don’t think Singaporeans envisage someone who can be the symbol of multiracialism and be a top finance person,” said Singapore Management University law don Eugene Tan.

    On Mdm Halimah still holding her cards close to her chest, the analysts said she could be waiting to see who her potential challengers are, as well as gauging public reaction to her potential candidacy before making her decision.

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

  • Damanhuri Abas: PAP No Champion Of Racial Equality, Malays Marginalised

    Damanhuri Abas: PAP No Champion Of Racial Equality, Malays Marginalised

    This is another ugly truth of how labels are conveniently thrown by them at persons to distract from the issue of contention.

    They are no champion of racial equality. For if they were, there would be no discriminatory practises of excluding the Malays from so-called sensitive positions in the SAF for the last 5 decades sowing the poison of distrust into the minds of Singaporeans towards the entire race, the Malay schools would not have closed down, the Madrasah would have stop ‘begging’ long time ago for a decent premise to educate our children while SAP schools are showered with endless tax-payers money, or would the Malays be systematically marginalised in so many other ways in society. Instead, race have been abused by the PAP to institutionalise deceptive mechanism such as the GRC to their political advantage. And now the EP.

    The fact that after more than 50 years of PAP led Malay leadership in government, the Malays are still behind in education, over represented in drug abused cases, prison inmates, delinquents, divorce, low income, etc., etc., are a damning indictment of the failures of the chosen PAP Malay leadership. The reserved EP is neither our community’s priority, need nor want for a show-puppet Malay President. Its a disgrace.

    We have seen few days ago what parliament has become when 1 party rules and now the last bastion of the people’s defence will simply become another tool of the PAP.

    Come on Singaporeans, lets take back our country from the current double tongue bunch of financially bloated elites that knows no shame oozing out their hypocrisy and taking the entire nation for their joy ride.

     

    Source: Damanhuri Bin Abas