A whopping 92 per cent of 19,900 individuals responding to a poll that went viral on social media have voted for Tharman Shanmugaratnam to succeed Pri
On Fri , Facebook user Mark Rozells posted aon his Facebook page asking people to vote on who they would like to become Singapore’s next PM. Respondents could vote for one of two individuals: Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat or Deputy Prime Minister Tharman.
A Blackbox survey commissioned by Yahoo Singapore confirmed the results of our poll. In that survey, 69 per cent of 897 respondents said they would support Tharman as a candidate to become prime minister. At the forum, NTU assistant professor Walid Jumblatt Abdullah highlighted Tharman’s popularity and asked:
“It is precisely because we need to place this emphasis institutionally that we recognise that we have not arrived. It is important for us to ensure that we have that safeguard.”
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