SINGAPORE, Aug 30 — Presidential candidate Tharman Shanmugaratnam fired back at his rival Ng Kok Song yesterday, saying that Ng was making “absurd sweeping statements”...
SINGAPORE, Aug 30 — Presidential candidate Tharman Shanmugaratnam fired back at his rival Ng Kok Song yesterday, saying that Ng was making “absurd sweeping statements” suggesting that elected presidents who had been members of a political party had been serving the political agenda of the party.
Ng also said that there was a “danger” of having such a former finance minister who established the rules of how the country’s past reserves can be used become President with custodial powers over these reserves. Ng also hit back at Tharman on Tuesday over the topic of independence, but Tharman said that Ng had misquoted him.On Tuesday morning, Mr said that Singaporeans do not want a President who “is manipulated by either the governing party or by the opposition parties”.
In response, Tharman said on Tuesday night that he is worried about such “increasingly sweeping statements”. He also said that one should not assume that people are partisan because they have been part of a political party. “It’s naive, it’s misleading, but it also, I think, just weakens our whole culture of how we view political parties, politics, governance and most importantly here — the elected presidency.Tharman noted that Ng has been saying from the start of his campaign that being a former member of a political party is a disadvantage to a candidate.
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