Former senior minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam officially launched his campaign for the presidency, themed “Respect for All”, at a press conference on Wednesday. Speaking to the media at the York Hotel in Orchard, Mr Tharman cautioned against drawing artificial...
Noting that the other two candidates were worthy candidates, he said: “Let’s not draw these artificial distinctions based on past affiliations. Let’s look at the positive attributes of each candidate...that’s what we should judge them on.”
Mr Thomas Chua, president of the Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations and former nominated MP, will be his proposer. In the past, candidates had been informed of the status of their certificate application within a few days of Nomination Day.On Wednesday, Mr Tharman said that now that he is out of Government, he is still “the same person” with the same integrity and independence of mind who doesn’t have to “change colours like a chameleon” - something which remains critical to the role of President.
“It’s one thing to have different views. It’s another thing to disrespect each other, become more distant from each other,” he said. Mr Kim Whye Kee, ceramicist and founder of Qi Pottery and co-founder of Beacon of Life, an initiative to help at-risk youthMr Lim Siong Guan, former group president of GIC and former head of the civil serviceProfessor Veera Sekaran, professor in practice at the National University of Singapore.
Mr Lim Siong Guan said that when he was asked to be an assenter, the question in his mind was whether Mr Tharman was prepared to disagree with the Mr Tharman of the past, when he was still serving in the Government
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