Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Mr Lee Kuan Yew's Sacred Cow - The Elected President

A sacred sow that Mr Lee Kuan Yew created needed to be slaughtered: The Singapore Elected President.

The Elected President cannot have decision on:
  • Granting amnesty for death roll prisoners such as Malaysian drug mule Yong Vui Kong who was caught when he was 19 years. (Cabinet advice the president on this)
  • Stock taking of Singapore National Assets. (President Ong Teng Cheong tried and was shot down by PAP)
There are only 2 Presidential hopefuls IMO will qualify for the world's most stringent presidential candidate requirement; Mr Tan Cheng Bock and Tan Kin Lian. (George Yeo had not declared his intention and President Nathan who did not declare if he still wanted to contest)

Mr S Jayakumar & Law Minister K Shanmugam had bluntly rebuked Tan Kin Lian about his vision of becoming a presidential candidate. The 2 PAP ministers said that the ELECTED President cannot influence (directed at Tan Kin Lian) the investment and operations of the GIC, Temasek and other GLCs.

If there are so many restrictions on the ELECTED President, then why need a Elected President in the first place? The answer is simple, the wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew where was quote:

Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it" -- MM Lee Kuan Yew on what would happen if a profligate opposition government touched Singapore's vast monetary reserves (wikiquote)

Singapore Elected President's role is only restricted to:
  • Protecting the "Reserve". (Assisted by Presidential Council appointed by PAP)
  • Appointing KAH in Singapore Gov such as PM and his Cabinet (Ceremonial role)
  • ISA Detainees is under the President's purview. (Really? Cabinet also will "Advice" the president?)
So if the Singapore Elected President is so restricted in his office, then why should he be elected in the first place? Singapore President should be reverted to ceremonial role if he with a mandate from Singaporeans cannot have power to influence the government's running of Singapore.


(Yong Vui Kong, Source: www.freemalaysiatoday.com)
Posted by Phare Anderson at 2:41 PM

3 comments:

  1. Having the citizenry to elect a decoration piece of a president is wasting our time and resource.
    Having to pay a ransom price of multi million SINDollars for a show piece president is simply ridiculous.
    Thus far, the people have not benefited the slightest from the Office of the President and many had donated to the President's charity which he(president) was always credited for just been present at the Shows.
    Has the President ever donated money himself?

    patriot

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  2. You see, without the EP or even an AP (appointed president), the PAP would not have a handle to manipulate the citizens, esp. when the govt is fond of doing things with little regard for how the things they do would affect us.

    So a president like SR Nathan who really cared very very little about people is an IDEAL president FOR the PAP. That's why he is paid millions.

    Let me ask you a simple question: if you payout a few millions for a nice front and in return you get back billions behind this front would you want the president to do any thing serious like constantly checking on the way the govt operates or confronting the govt over difficulties faced by the people?

    The answer is quite obvious.

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  3. The Elected President is a sacred cow?

    Let's have Beef Rendang for our dinners.

    The Current One escaped the Japanese slaughter by becoming their(Japanese) bullock cart driver.

    But now, he is consuming too much grasses without doing anything.

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