SINGAPORE — If Singapore does not vote in a non-partisan President this year, it risks turning future Presidential elections into 'proxy General Elections', which is what the current election has become, candidate Ng Kok Song warned on Monday (Aug 28).
SINGAPORE — If Singapore does not vote in a non-partisan President this year, it risks turning future Presidential elections into"proxy General Elections", which is what the current election has become, candidate Ng Kok Song warned on Monday .
"If we don't do that at this Presidential Election, we are going to be trapped into this quagmire, into this quicksand, where every time there's a Presidential Election, it becomes a proxy General Election."earlier statements Mr Ng said on Monday that if Mr Tan Jee Say and Dr Tan were appointed to the council, it would be tantamount to a form of “corruption”.
“Instead, he was suggesting that such an act could be seen as a moral perversion of the Council of Presidential Advisors," the statement said.Mr Ng was also asked by TODAY what his take was on Mr Tan Kin Lian’s preference to reveal the size of the National Reserves should he be elected.
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