Tag Archive: reserved election

DPM Teo: Important For Chinese Community To Supports These Provisions, So That Minority Communities Always Feel Assured..

Singaporeans have questioned the need for the reserved election, as well as for the group representation constituencies (GRCs) and ethnic integration rules in Housing Board estates, since the country already enjoys racial and religious peace and harmony. But the reason…
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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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Veteran Radio Personality Hamish Brown Questions Halimah Yacob’s Independence To Be Elected President

Prominent radio personality Hamish Brown has questioned if Presidential hopeful Halimah Yacob is as indeed independently-minded as she has claimed in a newspaper interview. In an interview with The New Paper Madam Halimah illustrated an incident where she abstained from…
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SDP: Halimah’s Resignation Is A Deliberate, Calculated Ploy By PAP To Remove One Of Its MPs To Stand For Another Election

Ms Halimah Yacob has announced that she will contest in the coming Presidential Elections and has resigned as MP for the Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC. The GRC system was introduced in 1988, the official reason being “to ensure that Singapore’s parliament would…
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