Tag Archives: President Halimah

The same question can be asked of the PAP leaders. When faced with a challenge from TCB, instead of taking up the gauntlet as our great departed leader would have done, they resorted to a cowardly dodge to avoid a fight. Now, one after another, they come up with all kinds of rationalisation to make themselves look good.

How is it that when it comes to the presidency, they tell us that we need to ensure minority-race representation, but they do not have the same requirements for the prime ministership? And while they created the GRC precisely to have minority-race representation, Chan Chun Sing now says there is no need to hold a by-election if a minority-race MP steps down from a GRC, leaving the GRC with an all-Chinese slate of MPs.

In response, Mr Chan Chun Sing, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, declared that, "If a minority candidate leaves his group representation constituency (GRC), a by-election will not be called". Mr Chan added that the GRC system, which has been in place since 1988, makes it compulsory to include at least one member of a minority race in each team.

Guys, no need to vote in the September 2017 presidential election! Looks like it has already been decided that Halimah will become president whether you vote or not. Dr Tan Cheng Bock is now ineligible to contest and will have to silently watch as the rules are changed to make it easy for PAP's preferred candidate, Mdm Halimah to win. In fact, Mdm Halimah's victory is so ridiculously easy that any other Malay could have done it too.

PAP bulldozes through multiple last minute changes to the Elected Presidency, most significantly that a minority candidate can leave a GRC *days* before running as a *non-partisan* candidate. Chan Chun Sing then jokingly refers to Halimah Yacob as 'Madam President' instead of 'Madam Speaker' (??)