Tag Archives: Chee Soon Juan

Singapore Democratic Party's Chee Soon Juan penned an opinion piece on what he thinks is a "delusional world" of the Elected Presidency. He outlined Mr Ong Teng Cheong's efforts to check on the government (but to no avail), and how candidates after him have to be "approved by the government".

Singapore Democratic Party's Chee Soon Juan spoke up for students who reportedly suffer a lot of stress and anxiety in our society today and questioned the PAP for inflicting this on them. "Never has an alternative voice been more urgent."

Singapore Democratic Party's Chee Soon Juan lashed out at Lawrence Wong for wanting to develop the country's infrastructure in the next decade. He seems skeptical that it will work as he thinks they lack a sustainable plan and are "bankrupt of ideas".

Singapore Democratic Party's Chee Soon Juan has written to PM Lee to call for a By-Election for Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC in light of Mdm Halimah Yacob's resignation. He asked if PM Lee agrees with Mr Chan Chun Sing for previously saying that there will not be a By-Election. If he does not receive a response, he will "proceed to take the necessary steps to rectify the situation".

SDP has written to President Tony Tan in asking him to revoke AG Lucien Wong's appointment. This is in light of the AGC's reply that it will not look into allegations of abuse of power by PM Lee. It described this as hypocritical given that the AGC wants to look into Li Shengwu's private Facebook posting.

Chee Soon Juan of the Singapore Democratic Party has called for the AGC to investigate allegations against LHL. "Even though LHL has addressed some of these matters in Parliament on 3 and 4 July 2017, his statements must necessarily be viewed as partisan as they were not subject to critical cross-examination. He has also refused to convene a Commission of Inquiry despite widespread calls from the public to do so." Dr Chee also asked for Lucien Wong and Hri Kumar to recuse themselves from dealing with this matter.

The PM's lawyer Davinder Singh said then that the words in the piece, in their ordinary meaning and innuendo, alleged that Mr Lee was dishonest and unfit for office. Specifically, Mr Lee said that the article had accused him of being “guilty of corruption, nepotism, criminal conduct, dishonesty, and had advanced the interests of [his] family”. This utterance 11 years ago has now come back to haunt Mr Lee in his current dispute with his siblings. Both Dr Lee Wei Ling and Mr Lee Hsien Yang have not resorted to innuendo – the accusations they level at their brother are direct and plain. The words employed are, or at least should be by PM Lee's own assessment, defamatory of him and the present government. That the PM seems unenthusiastic on the legal front is telling.

I note that a video where Mr Donald Low gave a talk at a forum organised by the FOSG (Future of Singapore) was removed this morning. Mr Low had spoken about Singapore's economic growth model. This comes at a time when the LKYSPP academic had a run-in with Mr K Shanmugam and had to apologise. The strange thing is that Low's talk had nothing to do with the Shanmugam problem (it took place on 18 March). It was a legitimate discussion of what confronts our economy and our nation. Yet, it was removed.

I recently attended the Youth Political Academy in Hong Kong organised by the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) during which Mr Sin Chung-Kai, former vice-chairperson of the Democratic Party of Hong Kong, shared his thoughts on the Umbrella Movement of 2014.

The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) and its secretary-general Chee Soon Juan are at the receiving end of a National Environment Agency (NEA) complaint over its Mobile Library initiative.