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Posts tagged with "elections"
On the beat to the hustings?
Feb. 19 | By Ng E-Jay On Wednesday 17 Feb, PM Lee Hsien Loong called for the Registers of Electors to be updated, exactly one year after the Elections Department had conducted the previous revision. [1] The Registers of Electors contain the particulars of all...
The treason of reason
Dec. 5 | Read: Media’s silence on Yong Vui Kong a National Shame Khairulanwar Zaini Make no mistake about where the ‘cooling off’ period is coming from: a psychological gerrymandering to serve the PAP’s advantage. But that advantage goes beyond imposing...
‘Cooling off’ does not mean ‘no talking’
Dec. 3 | Fang Shihan The proposed policing of the internet to disallow political campaigning one day before polling day has seemed to create a perception that any form of political talk will be disallowed. It has also generated a fear among internet users that...
PM Lee proposes “24-hour cooling-off” period before Polling Day
Dec. 1 | PM Lee proposes that websites should also stop postings on elections during this period. Exception for “news reports”, he says. (See WP’s Low Thia Khiang’s reaction below.) Channelnewsia’s report on PM Lee proposal on a...
Pre-election test – Name your MPs (Quiz 2)
Nov. 26 | With the next General Election not that far away, how well do you know your MPs? For a start, do you know what they look like? Do you know their names and the wards they’re in charge of? For the ministers, do you know which ministries they head? If...
Tweaking back to time…
May. 31 | Our forefathers fought for Singapore to be freed from the shackles of colonialism and for us to be able to run this country for our own interests instead of those of our colonial masters. Two generations later we find ourselves struggling again to restore...
No need to vote tactically, says Vivian Balakrishnan
May. 29 | What we are trying to tell our people is that in future, you don’t need to vote tactically. We will guarantee a diversity of views in this House, but focus on choosing candidates who can form a government, focus on choosing someone who will run your...
Chiam asks for two-member GRCs
May. 27 | Bigger GRCs are not needed because two-member GRCs can produce the optimum number of minority race MPs, while maximising meritocracy in the Singapore electoral system. Chiam See Tong
PAP MPs “work for it”?
May. 27 | If the Opposition wishes to have a geographical constituency, then like the PAP they must work for it and they must earn it. Many people ask the PAP government for many things but surely here a line must be drawn. PAP MP Indranee Rajah
Civil service is “politically impartial”
May. 17 | Civil servants under the constitution hold their allegiance to the president. The symbolism that is attached to that is we actually serve at the pleasure of a politically neutral institution. It is one of the values of the civil service that we are politically...
By the next general elections…
Apr. 4 | By the next election, we should have even more people in place to form the fourth generation leadership. DPM Teo Chee Hean
Cabinet changes – what does it mean for next General Elections?
Mar. 27 | Tan Kian Hwee There have been many cabinet reshuffles in the PAP government’s history. The most recent one announced on 26 March 2009, coming just up to two years before the next general election is due, gives away some telltale signs of the...
The relation between GRCs and cabinet appointments
Mar. 26 | The following was first published in The Kent Ridge Common. Kelvin Teo A foreign counterpart of mine once asked me how our cabinet ministers performed during our 2006 General Elections. Admittedly, I did have great difficulties answering his question....
Chiam’s still standing
Feb. 28 | Excerpts from Today, “Chiam’s still standing”: IF POLITICS could be likened to a game of chess, this grand old man of Opposition politics readily concedes that he is still a novice at disguising his next moves. Which is why Potong Pasir MP Chiam...
Just a routine
Feb. 17 | It’s a routine thing. There is no need to read too much into it. The more interesting one will be when they review electoral boundaries. MP Chan Soo Sen, on the updating of the register of electors
TOC Opinion: Snap Election for early March?
Jan. 13 | Correction: The Budget debate will conclude on the 13th of February, and not on the 3rd as mentioned in the article. We apologise for the error. Choo Zheng Xi In an earlier article, I highlighted how the Integrated Resorts’ dim prospects were an important...
The politics of Born Again Citizens
Dec. 12 | PN Balji / Guest Writer There was nothing really new in what this newsmaker was saying in an article in The Straits Times (ST Nov 28, 2008). Ms Sharmila Gunasingham, a Sri Lankan who became a Singapore citizen, was talking of how she found heaven on...
Current system lacks accountability
Dec. 5 | Gilbert Goh / Writer Recently, I wrote an article on the reasons for a two-party democracy in reply to PM Lee Hsien Loong’s endorsement of a one-party system and it was published on Straits Times. In my letter, I argued that a one-party system allows...
Hypotheticals
Dec. 4 | Would Singapore be better if Barisan Sosialis had been the ruling party for the past 43 years? Could it have brought Singapore to the rank of developed nation? Could its leaders have transformed Singapore to what it is today? Paul Chan (ST Forum)
A great opportunity to mature
Nov. 25 | The declared intent of Tan Kin Lian to enter the political arena offers a great opportunity for our political system to progress to the next level of maturity, a multiparty system with equally good men and women from both sides. My Singapore News
Two opinions on Tan Kin Lian petition
Nov. 25 | Guest writer P N Balji and TOC’s Choo Zheng Xi offer two contrasting perspectives on the strategy behind Mr Tan Kin Lian’s announcement that he is willing to stand for elections if he can gather 100,000 signatures. Just run, Mr Tan P N Balji / Guest...
20 Years of the GRC: Walkover political careers (Part Two)
Nov. 21 | *Please take part in the poll below (poll section on TOC) on whether you would support the call made by Mr Goh Meng Seng, for Mr Tan Kin Lian to contest in the elections. This is the second part of a two-part look at the GRC system which was first introduced...
Obama’s win: Lessons for local politicians
Nov. 14 | Anthony Yeo / Guest Writer The highlight of the Review (Insight) page in the Straits Times (ST November 7) highlighted lessons for local politics arising from Barack Obama’s historic and unprecedented election victory to become the 44th president of...
Awaiting Singapore’s moment of change
Nov. 6 | Dhevarajan Devadas / Guest Writer On November 4, we all witnessed history being made. The US elected its first ever black president. A nation that once regarded its black citizens as slaves has elected an African American to the nation’s highest...
The Elected Presidency and future non-PAP govts
Oct. 26 | Gerald Giam / Senior Writer If the most important position in the world – the US Presidency – can be left to a democratic vote by citizens, I don’t see why Singapore cannot do the same. The debate about the relevance of the Elected Presidency...
