Instead of focusing on the role of the presidency and what the candidates can bring to the office of the President, there is now “a strategy of toxic campaigning about one’s allegiance”, says one political observer.
PE 2023: Elected Presidency An Unproductive Exercise , S pore Should Go Back To Appointing President Again, Says Tan Kin Lian brudirect.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from brudirect.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SINGAPORE Presidential candidate Tan Kin Lian believes that the process of a presidential election in Singapore is an “unproductive exercise” and that the country should go back to a system of an appointed presidency.
The presidential hopeful also weighed in on the secrecy of Singapore's reserves, Ridout Road rentals and whether Singapore's President should be elected or appointed.
SINGAPORE Presidential candidate Tan Kin Lian on Friday (Aug 25) claimed that voters “prefer a chance to have” both the President and his or her spouse to be “true Singaporeans" born here, in a veiled reference to the wives of his opponents who were born abroad.