The life of a president in Singapore is not easy. Apart from authorising investigations and vetoing appointments of key public office holders, they have to safeguard Singapore's past reserves and are empowered to veto the budgets of the Government and Fifth Schedule companies. So, what happens after their time as head of state? Do they have a happy retirement or...
He was the first president to resign from office and did so about seven months before the end of his term.The fourth president of Singapore was Wee Kim Wee, who was elected by parliament on Aug 30, 1985. He was the last president to be appointed by Parliament.Wee was the first president vested with the powers of an elected president when the legislation on elected presidency came into effect on Nov 30, 1991.in 1993, and in 1999, he became director of Cathay Organisation Holdings.
Nathan was sworn into office on Sept 1, 1999 and on Aug 17, 2005, he was re-elected for a second term without contest as there were no other eligible challengers.After retiring from his presidential duties, he kept himself very busy. Apart from taking up the appointments of distinguished senior fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and at the Singapore Management University’s School of Social Sciences, he establishedOn top of that, he published two memoirs — An Unexpected Journey: Path to the Presidency, and S R Nathan: 50 Stories from My Life.
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