SINGAPORE, Aug 18 Three people have qualified to contest in the upcoming Presidential Election on September 1, the Elections Department (ELD) said in a statement.
SINGAPORE: Former GIC chief investment officer Ng Kok Song, former NTUC Income chief executive Tan Kin Lian and former Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam have qualified as candidates for Singapore's Presidential Election, the Elections Department (ELD) announced on Friday (Aug 18). Businessm
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George Goh did not qualify to be a candidate for this year's presidential election as the Presidential Elections Committee (PEC) was "not satisfied" that his five companies constituted a single private sector organisation. In a statement by the Elections Department (ELD) on Friday (Aug 18), they said that the PEC has decided to make public its letter to Goh that.
George Goh was deemed ineligible to run in the Presidential Election as his experience and ability in managing five smaller firms is not equivalent to a "very large" one, as required under the Constitution, says the Presidential Elections Committee.