SINGAPORE - Parliament on Wednesday rejected a motion by the Progress Singapore Party (PSP) to abolish the group representation constituency (GRC) system. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - Parliament on Wednesday rejected a motion by the Progress Singapore Party to abolish the group representation constituency system.
The GRC system was implemented in 1988 to enshrine minority representation in Parliament. Under the scheme, each slate of election candidates for a GRC must have one or more candidates who are non-Chinese. And as the NCMP scheme comes into play when the ruling party has a large majority in Parliament, Ms Poa’s suggestion would mean it kicks in when there is a predominantly Chinese party in power with minority MPs in opposition or as NCMPs, he said. The political divide will then be along racial lines, which “will be most dangerous for Singapore”, he added.
While the Government learns from the experiences of other countries to design, operate and evolve its own systems, Mr Chan said Singapore does not copy blindly. This is especially so when systems elsewhere are struggling to find the right answers to their own issues, he said.GRC system used for benefit of PAP and should be abolished, say PSP’s Leong Mun Wai and Hazel Poa
He also responded to Ms Poa’s other criticisms of GRCs. On her point that voters lose a representative when an MP vacates his or her seat in a GRC as a by-election is not required, he said this is to prevent any single member from holding the rest to ransom by threatening to step down. Mr Chan told the House that it cannot afford to gamble or experiment. “We get it wrong, we lose everything that we have built up over all these years... We will not have the chance to strive towards the Singaporean tribe that I described regardless of race, language and religion,” he said.
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