Residents ask Leon Perera if ex-WP chief Low Thia Khiang will run for President - Singapore News

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Aside from being the former WP chief, Mr Low is the longest-serving opposition Member of Parliament, having served as an MP for 20 years. He has remained active, lending his strength to several WP initiatives

Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam throwing his hat into the ring

“Some folks expressed concern that if Tharman were to be elected, the last two Presidents would be ex-PAP politicians who resigned from the PAP to run for the Presidential Election ,” wrote Mr Perera in a Sunday Facebook post, adding that, “A few constituents asked if Mr Low Thia Khiang could run.”

Perhaps more importantly, he also told the residents that the position of the WP is that Singapore “should go back to purely ceremonial Presidents appointed by Parliament on the basis of rotation among the races; and that the current powers held by the Elected President be instead exercised by an elected Senate, as we outlined in Parliament in 2016 and as reflected in our GE2020 manifesto.”

He was hospitalised on Apr 30, 2020, suffering a head injury after a fall. He stayed at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital until May 21 of that year.

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