SINGAPORE — Those contesting the Presidential Election will come up with various “tactical statements” and voters can judge these for themselves, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam said on Friday (Aug 25).
The presidential candidate was responding to reporters who had asked him for his views on rival candidateearlier in the day that Singaporeans would “prefer a chance” to have both the President and his or her spouse to be “true Singaporeans” born here.
Mr Tharman has said that his spouse, Ms Jane Yumiko Ittogi, was born to a Japanese father and Singaporean mother and has lived in Singapore since she was three, but did not state where she was born. Speaking to the media during a walkabout at the Amoy Street Food Centre on Friday, Mr Tharman declined to comment directly on Mr Tan’s remarks, adding that he would “let people judge for themselves”.
“For instance, I have nothing against George Goh. The fact that he was born in Malaysia, worked very hard,” said Mr Tharman.
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