Indian-origin Tharman Shanmugaratnam wins Singapore's presidential election

[Kuru]

Indian-origin Tharman Shanmugaratnam wins Singapore's presidential election

indianorigin tharman shanmugaratnam has won singapores presidential race the 66yearold former deputy prime minister won with 704 of the vote he will assume charge as singapores third indianorigin president singapore is a parliamentary democracy and prime minister lee hsien loong is the head of...

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[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

Indian-origin Tharman Shanmugaratnam wins Singapore's presidential election

indianorigin tharman shanmugaratnam has won singapores presidential race the 66yearold former deputy prime minister won with 704 of the vote he will assume charge as singapores third indianorigin president singapore is a parliamentary democracy and prime minister lee hsien loong is the head of...

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The real power is with Chinese PM Lee Hsien Loong.

The Indian guy is just a slave.

 

[Skull and Bones]

The real power is with Chinese PM Lee Hsien Loong.

The Indian guy is just a slave.

So the real power oscillates between Prime Minister and President depending on who is Indian or Chinese?

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

So the real power oscillates between Prime Minister and President depending on who is Indian or Chinese?

Indian slave will always be a slave.

 

[JohnyD]

Indian slave will always be a slave.

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U should be ashamed of yourself for bringing up dark side of british raj that we all Indian, pakistani and bangladeshi have common in history..this thread is not even distantly related to pakistan but u still want to play dirty here....shame....even Chinese have history of nanking but we wont bring it up just like that in any topic...get some good life and good thoughts...

 

[epebble]

So the real power oscillates between Prime Minister and President depending on who is Indian or Chinese?

But it is a bit surprising that a Malay is in neither position.

Indian slave will always be a slave.

Not true.

Demographics of Singapore - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Skull and Bones]

Indian slave will always be a slave.

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That could very well be your fore-father.

 

[Indos]

No need to be hype, previous Presiden is Malay. There will be rotation for President to improve nation unity but real power is in the hand of PM as Singapore is not using Presidential system. President position is just symbolic and the position is powerless.

It is the Party who select their President candidate and the winning is not a surprise as the same party who previously choose Malay women (Halimah) as their President candidate also won.

PM is still in the hand of Chinese, including the next PM ( current finance minister)

 

[Indos]

But it is a bit surprising that a Malay is in neither position.


Not true.
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Demographics of Singapore - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Duh not surprising at all.

The reason is the same like happening in US. Indians who migrate to Singapore comes from educated background. While Indians who work in blue color jobs in Singapore cannot/ hard to get the citizenship, the same system applied in Saudi where blue color migrant worker also cannot/hard to get citizenship.

Chinese ethnic around SEA and EA also migrate to Singapore, they are also from educated folks group. Usually those who can afford to study in expensive Singaporean universities and those who get to Singapore from white color jobs.

Malay group in Singapore are different. Educated Malay/Austronesian group in Indonesia/Malaysia/Brunei dont have any interest to migrate to Singapore.

 

[Kuru]

That could very well be your fore-father.

May be he is one of those who believe his four fathers are from Arab land.

 

[epebble]

the same system applied in Saudi where blue color migrant worker also cannot/hard to get citizenship.

I don't think Saudi's care about the color of your collar. They rarely allow citizenship, only to ethnic Arabs and Muslims. Rest of them are barely humans, who can come and work.

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

That could very well be your fore-father.

Even during the British rule, Muslims were the Nawabs of the British India princely states and ruling you Hindu slaves.

British always gave respect and treated Muslims as equals unlike you pagans.

 

[kankan326]

Chinese majority countries/regions are rich. Indians majority countries/regions are poor.

 

[Mista]

President position is just symbolic and the position is powerless.

The President isn't exactly powerless. He holds the 2nd key to Singapore's reserves.

The President used to be appointed by the cabinet as the head of state, a largely ceremonial role. However before Lee Kuan Yew stepped down, he was worried that the electorate will vote in a spendthrift government and spend all the fiscal reserves the previous generations worked so hard to accumulate. The reserves are the only fallback for a small country with no natural resources.

To prevent such a situation, he came up with a 'two-key' mechanism. One key held by the government, another key held by the President. To unlock the reserves, you need the consent of the President. And for the President to be an effective custodian of the reserves, he/she needs to be separately elected by the people and not appointed by the government. So the opposition can't just say, "Vote us in and we will lower taxes and increase welfare spending". They have to balance the budget.

So far, the reserves have only been unlocked twice in times of crisis: the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and Covid crisis.

 

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

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