Presidential candidate Tharman Shanmugaratnam said he would rather not comment on tactical statements made by other candidates, and prefers to let people judge for themselves. He was responding to the media, who had asked for his comments on fellow candidate Tan Kin Lian....
Mr Tharman said: “Confidence doesn’t come naturally. When you are poor and disadvantaged, you cannot underestimate how people can lose confidence and feel that they being looked down upon.This has been the passion for his wife and him for many years, and he now wants to scale that up, he added.
“The good thing about Singapore is that we have, if not the tightest, one of the tightest rules anywhere in the world on spending money in politics. We should stick to that.” – in other words, that he could be the second coming of former president Ong Teng Cheong – Mr Tharman said he had a high regard for Singapore’s fifth president.
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