With Singaporeans heading to the polls on Friday (Sept 1) to elect the nation's ninth head of state, President Halimah Yacob will soon step down from her role. In May, she announced that she will not be running for a second term in the upcoming Presidential Election. The 69-year-old later shared that it was because she wanted to retire. It.
The life of a president in Singapore is not easy. Apart from authorising investigations and vetoing appointments of key public office holders, they have to safeguard Singapore's past reserves and are empowered to veto the budgets of the Government and Fifth Schedule companies. So, what happens after their time as head of state? Do they have a happy retirement or.