This paper is published in Volume 3, Issue 1, 2018
Area
Pacific Rim Asian Societies
Author
Probir Lahiri
Co-authors
Devik Sorathia
Org/Univ
Christ University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Pub. Date
30 January, 2018
Paper ID
V3I1-1193
Publisher
Keywords
Political Change, Presidential Rights, Religious Perspective, Political Inequality, Efficient Economies

Citationsacebook

IEEE
Probir Lahiri, Devik Sorathia. Presidential Elections in Singapore in 2017, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARnD.com.

APA
Probir Lahiri, Devik Sorathia (2018). Presidential Elections in Singapore in 2017. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 3(1) www.IJARnD.com.

MLA
Probir Lahiri, Devik Sorathia. "Presidential Elections in Singapore in 2017." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 3.1 (2018). www.IJARnD.com.

Abstract

2017 had been considered a year of great political change in the history of Singapore. Singapore contested elections in 2017 in order to elect their next president. But it didn’t go as planned or prepared because the election was mainly contested and was reserved for minority Malay community, who haven’t held the presidential office since the year of 1970. It was the 5th Presidential election held in Singapore and the Election Department declared Halima Yacob of Independent party as the only eligible president, who then emerged as the winner in a single-horse race. There were three main candidates running for the presidential rights namely Salleh Merican,67, a property company chief executive, Halima Yacob,63, former speaker of parliament and Farid Khan,61, marine services firm Chairman (Yong c., 2017) and the official dates for filing nominations was 13th September 2017 while that for voting was 23rd September 2017. What was a moment for celebration for Halima Yakob after being elected as the first woman president of the country has become a contentious situation throughout the country with various cases of debates going throughout country questioning her rights of claiming the president’s throne, the religious perspective on this matter and the change that took place in the presidential elections. As a result, this study has been undertaken in order to know the political changes and behavior of general public and impact of the presidential elections throughout the country, which to many of them is a political act of inequality. Depriving the Right to vote and announcing the leader without any fair contestation of elections has been amongst the matters of agitation and protest of public. Singapore has been one of the most efficient economies in modern times and the impact of such a change is worth notable on human lives.
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