“… the Speaker is a member of the ruling party's Central Executive Committee, which raises the risk of unconscious favouritism towards his own party when attempting to act with fairness towards all Members of Parliament,” said RDU
SINGAPORE — Singapore’s Speaker of Parliament Tan Chuan-jin recently found himself in an inappropriate hot-mic situation during a parliamentary sitting in April, as he uttered an offensive language, f**king populist, which many believed was aimed at the Workers’ Party member of parliament Assoc Prof Jamus Lim.
In light of this incident, RDU also repeated their calls for a non-partisan Speaker of Parliament, which they had raised after the 2020 Singapore General Election. The current Speaker of Parliament, Tan, is an elected member of parliament, winning the Marine Parade GRC with the People’s Action Party in the previous election.
“We recommended that Parliament should have a non-partisan Speaker as this would eliminate any risk of fairness in parliament being compromised. This is not a novel suggestion as Singapore has had impartial Speakers in the past, such as Sir George Oehlers, A.P. Rajah, and Punch Coomaraswamy, who were not affiliated with any political party.”
“When I listen to speeches made, like everyone, I do form views on them. What was said were my private thoughts which I had muttered to myself and not to anyone. However I should not have expressed them aloud or in unparliamentary language, and I apologise for that. I have also spoken to the Member, A/P Jamus Lim, to make that apology as well; which he has kindly accepted,” posted Speaker of Parliament Tan in a Facebook post.
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