Singapore Presidential Election 2017

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    Workers' Party re-files parliamentary motion on Presidential Election

    The Workers' Party (WP) will again attempt to raise the issue of this year's reserved Presidential Election (PE) in Parliament, this time at the sitting scheduled for 2 October. In a Facebook post on Tuesday (19 September), the opposition party said that its chairman and Aljunied GRC Member of Parliament (MP) Sylvia Lim had refiled a notice to speak on an adjournment motion on the topic: “Counting from President Wee Kim Wee or President Ong Teng Cheong for Reserved Presidential Election – Policy

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    Hundreds turn up at Hong Lim Park for silent protest against reserved presidential election

    Two former presidential candidates were among hundreds of people who turned up at Hong Lim Park on Saturday (16 September) for a silent sit-in protest against the recent presidential election.

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    Tan Cheng Bock: Halimah Yacob to assume the ‘most controversial presidency’ in Singapore’s history

    Halimah Yacob will assume “the most controversial presidency in the history of Singapore”, former presidential candidate Tan Cheng Bock said on Wednesday (13 September). Extending his congratulations to the President-elect, Tan said in a post on his Facebook page that people “feel muzzled and angry” that there was a walkover for this year’s presidential election (PE), which is reserved for Malay candidates.

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    COMMENT: Singapore presidency with an asterisk and a government that was blindsided

    Halimah Yacob’s presidency has been tainted. The eighth President of Singapore will continue to be haunted by an electoral process that pushed her into a whirlpool of vitriol as her status as a Malay was questioned and her financial nous put under the microscope.

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    Overwhelmingly negative sentiment after decision on Halimah Yacob's presidential eligibility: report

    Online sentiment on Singapore’s 2017 presidential election took a sharply negative turn after former speaker of parliament Halimah Yacob was declared the sole eligible candidate on Monday (11 September), according to a report by Marketing Interactive.

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    'Even though this is a reserved election, I am not a reserved president': Halimah Yacob

    The climax to a divisive presidential campaign came on Wednesday (13 September) as Halimah Yacob became Singapore's first female president, in what was derided by some as a foregone conclusion. The former speaker of parliament was formally inaugurated as the nation's President-elect by walkover as there were no other eligible candidates. Halimah was the only candidate to be issued a Certificate of Eligibility by the Presidential Elections Committee, with presidential hopefuls Salleh Marican and

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    PE 2017: Highlights from President-elect Halimah Yacob's Nomination Day Speech

    Video by Dhany Osman Former speaker of parliament Halimah Yacob was declared Singapore's President-elect on Wednesday (13 September). See highlights from the speech she gave at the nomination centre, located at the People's Association headquarters on King George's Avenue, after being appointed to the post.