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Orhor, our reader understands the need for censorship but calls out CNA for deleting negative comments on the elected Presidency. Why not have an open forum or have our opinions heard? Why so scared?

This is the new low that we are given a race specific election and given to Malays. That's not the worst.. It's a walk over that means we don't have enough Malay candidates who fits the criteria. What does this mean?

In news just that just broke, Halimah Yacob will be confirmed as the incoming Singapore President, as only one Certificate of Eligibility has been issued. This means that Singaporeans need not go to the polls to vote for their President, as it is widely believed Halimah Yacob is deemed as the only candidate eligible.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has approached Facebook page Fabrications About Singapore to remove the specimen currency image which had a photograph of Halimah Yacob pasted on it.

Our reader notes that Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, who has been nominated at Singapore's 10th Speaker, will thus be out of the running to be our next PM. This leaves us with Heng Swee Keat, Lawrence Wong, Ng Chee Meng, Chan Chun Sing and Ong Ye Kung. He thinks this is all very well-planned and calculated.

Netizen Ismail Kassim thinks Mdm Halimah Yacob is an inspiring personality but not when she is a "PAP-sponsored" candidate. He acknowledged that all 3 candidates have achieved a lot but are only hurting themselves by taking part in the "flawed EP contest".

As a Singaporean,It is frustrated to see that the government is overpaying the president. Every year, $1.54 million is paid to the president from the taxpayer money. Lee Kuan Yew has made a serious mistake by overpaying the President.

Madam Halimah is the only aspiring candidate to automatically qualify so far, having served as Speaker of Parliament for more than three years. The two other hopefuls, Second Chance Properties chief executive Salleh Marican, 67, and Bourbon Offshore Asia Pacific chairman Farid Khan, 62, fall short of the criteria for private sector candidates.

While netizens are busy slamming her new campaign slogan for being ungrammatical and insipid, presidential candidate Halimah Yacob has stepped up to defend her slogan, "Do Good Do Together".

Would Halimah Yacob have qualified for PE2017 if the Government stuck to the Constitutional Commission's recommendation of having at least 6 years experience in a relevant office? Mdm Halimah had only held the office of the Speaker for about 4.5 years.