‘Leaders must be able to take criticism, acknowledge mistakes’: PM Lee

[stardawn]

Originally Posted by skyleon

Halimah may be strongest EP candidate, say analysts



By Faris Mokhtar

Published: 4:00 AM, July 18, 2017




SINGAPORE — Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob will be a front-runner for the highest office in the land if she decides to throw her hat into the ring, said political analysts interviewed by TODAY.

Citing her long record of public service, they noted that voters of all races are familiar with her credentials, while the other two presidential hopefuls would have their work cut out seeking to appeal to Singaporeans outside of their community.

Nevertheless, Mdm Halimah — who said on Sunday that she was thinking about contesting in the polls — could be disadvantaged by her ties with the ruling People’s Action Party, the analysts said, should voters look for independence from the Government in a candidate. Some, like former Nominated Member of Parliament Calvin Cheng, have also questioned Mdm Halimah’s financial acumen, given that the Parliament Speaker does not have the responsibility of managing “huge billion-dollar budgets and hundreds to thousands of civil servants” like a Cabinet Minister.

While Mdm Halimah has yet to firm up her interest, Mr Farid Khan Kaim Khan, 62, chairman of marine service provider Bourbon Offshore Asia Pacific, and Second Chance Properties chief executive Salleh Marican, 67, have in the past month declared their intentions to run in the polls slated for September, if they are deemed eligible by the Presidential Elections Committee (PEC).

National University of Singapore political scientist Bilveer Singh said that among the three potential candidates, Mdm Halimah would be the “strongest” in the field because of her long track record in the public service.

Starting out as a lawyer, Mdm Halimah, 62, has spent 40 years in the public service, including over three decades in the National Trades Union Congress. Before she became Speaker of Parliament in 2013, she had served as Minister of State at the then-Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports. Dr Singh pointed out that Mdm Halimah has enjoyed solid support from her constituents since she first entered politics in 2001, winning four successive General Elections along the way.

Dr Alan Chong, an associate professor at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, noted that Mdm Halimah’s contributions to the labour movement also placed her in good stead, and she would be seen as being in touch with the ground.


continue reading here : http://www.todayonline.com/singapore...e-say-analysts


The propaganda machine working overtime .

Sometime I really wonder if she can discharge her duties as President independently or not ?

[chrisper]

Originally Posted by stardawn

Sometime I really wonder if she can discharge her duties as President independently or not ?

No need to. Look at what happened to the late Mr. Ong Teng Cheong when he tried to perform his duty as a President

[SiaSuay]

Originally Posted by ibanezjem555

Thanks Bro. But really nothing new here for the 30%.

For the 70%, well... many speechless, many flabbergasted.. but still side for LHL.
Many reasons why 70% side for LHL:
1) Sweep under the carpet, never mind lah, stll good government as long don't affect my life/job can already
2) LHL shed tears leh in parlliament (crocodile tears)
3) LHL give his share to donation (ya.. the Pontius Pilate handwashing act, remember Nassim Jade)
4) GCT come out to speak and support LHL leh.. wah he so distinguish looking (ya but no cow sense to debate.. still say 'not my brother'.. real cock-head)

LHY and LWL not hero and heroine either. They tasted the sweet things by the MIW system (CEO twice with little or no business experience or acumen, the other Head Neuroscience with little or no medical accolades), now kenna the receiving end.. then they speak up. So, open eyes. They not hero. Anyway, they will survive with Cluny road house and other monetary inheritances.

Nothing will really change in the short-term. In medium term, things might differ not bcos of Lee saga, but more bcos of Presidential Elections racialism issues.

Rock On Bro

This is what they call ownself defend ownself. I honestly hope the other 70% will also open their eyes . Would be interested to see who are the candidates for the Presidential Elections .

[Dannyip]

Originally Posted by SiaSuay

This is what they call ownself defend ownself. I honestly hope the other 70% will also open their eyes . Would be interested to see who are the candidates for the Presidential Elections .

Candidate should be someone wearing white, a kelong election .... unless someone can prove Tan Cheng Bock is born a Malay

[SiaSuay]

Originally Posted by stardawn

Sometime I really wonder if she can discharge her duties as President independently or not ?

So if she does decide to run the for the Presidency she probably would need to do the following :

1 ) resign from PAP
2 ) resign from Speaker Parliament
3 ) resign as an MP of Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC
4 ) resign from all other posts .

So if she resign as an MP will there be a by-election in Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC ?

[SiaSuay]

Originally Posted by Dannyip

Candidate should be someone wearing white, a kelong election .... unless someone can prove Tan Cheng Bock is born a Malay

I won't be surprise if it is someone wearing white just like the last one .

[Umptire]

Originally Posted by SiaSuay

I won't be surprise if it is someone wearing white just like the last one .

When they announce the next EP would be a Malay, we should know something fishy is going on.

Maybe this round there is only one candidate .... no voting, no public holiday

[SiaSuay]

Read somewhere that there will be no by-election in Marsiling-Yew Tee . Also I wonder what race does Madam Halimah Yacob belong to ?

[SnrSaigone]

Originally Posted by SiaSuay

Read somewhere that there will be no by-election in Marsiling-Yew Tee . Also I wonder what race does Madam Halimah Yacob belong to ?

The race is very unique - Farking Greedy White race

[skyleon]

Did Halimah Yacob delete info about Indian descent from Wikipedia page?

July 19, 2017


Speaker of Parliament Mdm Halimah Yacob’s Wikipedia page appears to have been edited recently. Her page now does not show that she is a “Singaporean politician of Indian descent” as it previously did.

Her page may have been spruced up in anticipation of the upcoming Presidential election which Mdm Halimah is considering contesting.

The presidential election this year has been reserved for Malay candidates.

There has been wide speculation about whether Mdm Halimah qualifies since she is an Indian Muslim, whose father is of Indian origin.

This was disclosed in an ST article in 2013 when Halimah was selected to be the new Speaker of Parliament after her predecessor, Michael Palmer, resigned from politics due to his marital affair with a PA woman.

In the article, it mentioned: “Her (Halimah’s) Indian-Muslim father was a watchman who died when she was eight years old.”

In fact, news of Halimah becoming Singapore’s first woman speaker also made its way to India. The Hindu described her as an “Indian-origin politician.”

It has been revealed that despite her ancestry, Mdm Halimah has been certified as a Malay by the Malay Community Committee at least three times in 2001, 2006 and 2015 when she was fielded as a Malay minority candidate during the general elections.

It is a requirement for minority candidates contesting general elections to to be certified as a member of his or her respective ethnic community.

If she chooses to contest the presidential election set for September, Mdm Halimah will be required to certified as a Malay candidate once again, by a five-member panel that will assess whether prospective presidential candidates belong to the Malay race.



continue reading here : http://www.theindependent.sg/did-hal...ikipedia-page/

[ibanezjem555]

Well, MIW has contradicted itself by opening this racial pandora box, which is very divisive. MIW has only got itself to be blamed.

[skyleon]

PAP MP vouches for Halimah’s ‘Malaynesss’

July 20, 2017




Member of Parliament from the People’s Action Party, Zainal Sapari, has vouched for the ‘Malayness’ of the Speaker of Parliament. This publication reported yesterday that Speaker of Parliament, Mdm Halimah Yacob’s Wikipedia page appears to have been edited recently, and that her page now does not show that she is a “Singaporean politician of Indian descent” as it previously did. The last edit on Mdm Halimah’s Wikipedia page was on 18 July 2017, and it has since been made a ‘protected page’ to guard against vandalism.

Mr Zainal, a PAP MP has now vouched for the ‘Malayness’ of the Speaker of Parliament. Sharing an article which said that Mdm Halimah contested in 3 General Elections as a ‘Malay’ minority candidate in his Facebook, Mr Zainal said that to him, “beyond any reasonable doubt, she belongs to (the) Malay Community.”

In answering a question on what constitutes a Malay person, Mr Zainal said: “any person, whether of the Malay race or otherwise, who considers himself to be a member of the Malay community and who is generally accepted as a member of the Malay community by that community.”

Mdm Halimah recently confirmed that she is eyeing the Elected Presidency. Speaking after a community event in her Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC, Mdm Halimah said:

“I am thinking about it, of running for the presidency…The elected presidency is a very heavy responsibility and an important institution in Singapore, so it’s not something that one should take lightly… so it needs a bit of time to think. But I must say at this moment, I have a lot of duties I have to perform, as Speaker, as MP. These duties are also very dear and important to me.”

At the parliamentary debate on the Presidential Election (amendment) Bill in February, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Chan Chun Sing, accidentally referred to Madam Halimah as “Madam President” instead of “Madam Speaker”. Netizens who responded to Mr Chan’s slip then, wondered if it was a freudian one.

In his address, Mr Chan further confirmed that no by-election will be called if a minority candidate in a GRC resigned to contest the Presidential Election.

Mr Chan explained that the GRC system, which requires each team to include at least one member of a minority race, has been in place since 1988, and that it has two purposes. First to ensure enough minority members in Parliament and secondly, to ensure no political campaign on issues of race and religion.

He noted that there are 25 minority MPs out of 89 – “more than what you’d expect proportionately from adding up the percentage of Malays, Indians and other minorities”.



continue reading here : http://www.theindependent.sg/pap-mp-...hs-malaynesss/



Ownself certify ownself! I would seriously vote for either one of the other 2 candidates .

[SiaSuay]

Originally Posted by ibanezjem555

Well, MIW has contradicted itself by opening this racial pandora box, which is very divisive. MIW has only got itself to be blamed.

At the end of the day it only serves their own purpose .

[GaoKiew]

Originally Posted by skyleon

PAP MP vouches for Halimah’s ‘Malaynesss’

July 20, 2017




Member of Parliament from the People’s Action Party, Zainal Sapari, has vouched for the ‘Malayness’ of the Speaker of Parliament. This publication reported yesterday that Speaker of Parliament, Mdm Halimah Yacob’s Wikipedia page appears to have been edited recently, and that her page now does not show that she is a “Singaporean politician of Indian descent” as it previously did. The last edit on Mdm Halimah’s Wikipedia page was on 18 July 2017, and it has since been made a ‘protected page’ to guard against vandalism.

Mr Zainal, a PAP MP has now vouched for the ‘Malayness’ of the Speaker of Parliament. Sharing an article which said that Mdm Halimah contested in 3 General Elections as a ‘Malay’ minority candidate in his Facebook, Mr Zainal said that to him, “beyond any reasonable doubt, she belongs to (the) Malay Community.”

In answering a question on what constitutes a Malay person, Mr Zainal said: “any person, whether of the Malay race or otherwise, who considers himself to be a member of the Malay community and who is generally accepted as a member of the Malay community by that community.”

Mdm Halimah recently confirmed that she is eyeing the Elected Presidency. Speaking after a community event in her Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC, Mdm Halimah said:

“I am thinking about it, of running for the presidency…The elected presidency is a very heavy responsibility and an important institution in Singapore, so it’s not something that one should take lightly… so it needs a bit of time to think. But I must say at this moment, I have a lot of duties I have to perform, as Speaker, as MP. These duties are also very dear and important to me.”

At the parliamentary debate on the Presidential Election (amendment) Bill in February, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Chan Chun Sing, accidentally referred to Madam Halimah as “Madam President” instead of “Madam Speaker”. Netizens who responded to Mr Chan’s slip then, wondered if it was a freudian one.

In his address, Mr Chan further confirmed that no by-election will be called if a minority candidate in a GRC resigned to contest the Presidential Election.

Mr Chan explained that the GRC system, which requires each team to include at least one member of a minority race, has been in place since 1988, and that it has two purposes. First to ensure enough minority members in Parliament and secondly, to ensure no political campaign on issues of race and religion.

He noted that there are 25 minority MPs out of 89 – “more than what you’d expect proportionately from adding up the percentage of Malays, Indians and other minorities”.



continue reading here : http://www.theindependent.sg/pap-mp-...hs-malaynesss/



Ownself certify ownself! I would seriously vote for either one of the other 2 candidates .

I also can vouch for Tan Cheng Bock's 'Malayness' too

[Baigonggong]

Ah Gong don't understand why someone not proud or their own race ?