SINGAPORE — Singaporeans will be heading to the polls on Sept 1 to vote for the country's ninth president following the nominations of Mr Ng Kok Song, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Mr Tan Kin Lian as candidates.
On Tuesday morning, the three hopefuls entered the nomination centre at People’s Association Headquarters along King George’s Avenue to hand in their relevant documents, before returning officer Tan Meng Dui, the chief executive officer of the Housing and Development Board, announced that all three had been accepted as candidates.
"It will be a more difficult and challenging future that we face, which is the reason why I have entered this contest to offer all my experience and capabilities on the ground for a few decades nationally and internationally," he said. The candidates also revealed their respective logos which will be displayed on each voting slip on Sept 1. They are:A flower being held up by four figures for Mr TanThe three candidates began arriving at PA Headquarters from 10am, but their supporters had been gathering there from as early as 9am, some even taking leave from work and braving the heat to do so.
When asked why he was braving the heat, Mr Khan quipped: “Because we have a candidate who is very cool, so Mr Tharman is cooling us down.” “He built the reserves, and we have a lot of close insight into how the reserves are built and managed. Of course he knows how to use it,” he said, adding that Mr Ng was a “close friend”.
But not all in the crowd were supporters of a particular candidate — curious onlookers also visited the center just to be in the centre of the action.
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