SINGAPORE — The role of the President is important in bringing people together in a more contested and uncertain environment, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam said on Saturday (Aug 19).
The presidential hopeful and former Senior Minister said that the role of the President in a more diverse environment — where people have multiple views — becomes more important and not just in a symbolic way.
"And I believe that that active role of the President in supporting ground-up initiatives, by civil society and other voluntary groups, can be much more important in future." "We cannot underestimate how much of a loss it will be to Singapore if we're treated as just a small country. We've held our own, actually it started with Mr Lee Kuan Yew's days, we've held our own, but it's going to get very difficult in future because of the tensions between the US and China and the gradual unravelling of all the norms of multilateralism that held the world together for 40 years. It's going to be a dangerous world," he said.
In the run up to Nomination Day on Aug 22, Mr Tharman has stressed that he intends to serve as President for a challenging new era, echoing the message from when he launched his formal bid for presidency. "This is an issue, if it's a political issue, take it up politically, it is not an issue for the presidency and I don't intend to weaken that constitutional framework on what the President gets involved in, and what the President doesn't get involved in, separate from private communications and the like. But I want to say that I'm talking as someone who's spent a lot of time with ex-inmates and will continue to.
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