Former Attorney-General on the powers of the President
August 30th, 2023 | 
Author: Former Attorney-General Walter Woon speaks of the actual power of the President and how an elected president can effect checks and balances in the system.
“It is always better to have some outside of the political structure looking in”.
Mr Walter Woon was also a legal advisor to former Presidents and Council of Presidential Advisors.
So the President is not so powerless afterall, from what has been revealed by Mr Walter Woon.
* Video by Mothership.
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ex AG Walter Woon Vs Current AG Lucy Wong.
Heaven Vs Hell!
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Why do I get the feeling that despite all his talk, he will vote for Tharman?
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Someone who voted for 12-year Tan? All real Sinkies should be very disgusted.
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This job requires first and foremost,
1. The right questioning attitude. Someone conditioned to saying “Yes” for 20 years does not have this attitude.
There are 3 (not 2) powerful checks by the President.
1. Approve and CHECK use of reserve. Why most Singaporeans get $600 instead of $23,000?
2. Approve appointments of many high level CEO/Permanent Secretary/Army, police Chiefs
3. Approve budgets of stat. boards and other organization.
A President without the right questioning attitude will simply accept everything – a smooth easy ride to $10 million income.
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CHECKS AND BALANCE AND I N F L U E N C E.
THESE MUST BE PRESENT IN OUR NEXT ELECTED president.
There have been too many ERECTed PRESIDENT.
TIME FOR CHANGE TO MAKE THE ELECTED PRESIDENT AN elected president who is not from the e$tablishMEN(t).
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I would normally vote for the independent candidate, but in this case, the problem is that the “most independent” candidate TKL is really weak – senile, has made weird comments including on pretty girls and making nric information public domain, and is staunch supporter of China Communist Party and against democracy! and now he is not even independent as clearly he is now a mascot (or even puppet) of opposition parties.
Independence I accept an important qualification, but proxy for opposition, no I don’t support. There will be complete logjam as opposition will want to block the government in everything, and Singapore will go down the drain.
The further complication in this elections is the “government candidate” Tharman is very strong (it is not a Tony Tan or Nathan – Halimah no need to talk lah). Well-respected and a really good guy. Remember Ong Teng Cheong was a similar candidate to Tharman, and proved to be a great president. Tharman could well follow suit.
NKS is a solid candidate and I could have gone for him. But with opposition supporters grouping around TKL and PAP supporters around Tharman, NKS has practically no chance. So there is it – support Tharman, and I urge all to do so. The battle around policies are to be fought in the general elections, not in this presidential elections.
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Maybe a non partisan EP is what Singapore need to unite all.
Who can do that ?
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