Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam will be running for President in the upcoming election, stepping aside after 22 years in politics. “I wish to inform you that I have decided to put myself forward as a candidate in the forthcoming presidential election. I hence wish...
Mr Tharman, 66, is the first potential candidate to throw his hat in the ring, as no other presidential hopeful has made their intentions public.
Under the public sector service requirements laid down in the Constitution, presidential candidates must have held office - for at least three years - as a minister, chief justice, Speaker, attorney-general, Public Service Commission chairman, auditor-general, accountant-general, or permanent secretary, among others.
His current posts include Senior Minister since 2019, Coordinating Minister for Social Policies since 2015, and chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore since 2011.
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