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 Decision or Legal Question?”.
“Should there be competing bids from other MPs to speak on the adjournment, under Standing Order 2(8) a ballot will be conducted, likely on Tuesday 26 September,” said the WP post.
On 28 August, the WP said that Lim had filed an adjournment motion – which entitles an MP to speak for up to 20 minutes on a subject – on the PE for the Parliament session on 11 September. However, as there were two other adjournment motions filed by People’s Action Party MPs, this was subject to a ballot and Lim’s motion was not picked.
The WP has said that it filed the earlier adjournment motion in the wake of “intense public discussion” and a court case on the reserved PE.
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