Tharman Shanmugaratnam will be Singapore’s next President. The significance for multiracial meritocracy will promote open and inclusive leadership, says the Institute of Policy Studies’ Gillian Koh.
for performing the supreme public duty of offering themselves as candidates and presenting citizens with real choice.
He is associated with past efforts in government to design social support to help people bounce back from adversity rather than just to catch them with a safety net.
Mr Ng went so far as to say that the exercise of the president’s custodial power over the reserves should not be left in the hands of a former Finance Minister, as that would be akin to an “”, borrowing a phrase coined by the leading opposition Workers’ Party; it would be “very difficult for someone who set up the system to question the system”.
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