SINGAPORE: The High Court could hear former presidential candidate Tan Cheng Bock’s legal challenge regarding the upcoming Malay-only presidential election in late June, Deputy Attorney-General Hri Kumar Nair said, following a pre-trial conference on Monday (May 22).
Earlier this month, the High Court accepted Dr Tan’s application which questioned the Government’s decision to reserve the upcoming presidential election for Malay candidates. His legal challenge follows a press conference in March, when he called for the next presidential election to be an open one.
Dr Tan had announced his intention to run for president in March last year, months before it was announced the next election would be reserved for Malay candidates.
The next presidential election is due to be held in September.
Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/tan-cheng-bock-s-legal-challenge-could-be-heard-in-june-ahead-of-8870932
Well PAP is in the business of preserving democracy, not practicing it though.
M. Ravi has also stepped into the fray to file his own challenge:
Human rights lawyer M. Ravi yesterday filed a constitutional challenge against changes to the elected presidency made last year.
The changes, which Parliament approved last November, tighten the qualifying criteria for candidates, and include a provision to reserve a presidential election for candidates from a racial group that has not been represented in the office for five continuous terms.
Mr Ravi argues that the changes are unconstitutional because they deprive citizens of their right to stand for public office and discriminate on the grounds of ethnicity.
The High Court confirmed that Mr Ravi had filed an originating summons and supporting affidavit.
A spokesman for the Attorney-General's Chambers told The Straits Times that "it will study the papers" filed by Mr Ravi.
Mr Ravi, currently a non-practising lawyer, said on Facebook that he filed the application in his capacity as a private citizen.
Full article at http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore/m-ravi-files-challenge-against-changes-elected-presidency
I stopped reading at Deputy Attorney-General Hri Kumar Nair .
Ex-PAP man overseeing this? The only thing he should do is recuse himself from all proceedings.
Just another thinly veiled attempt to put on a false populist front. FAIL.
I will chop off my dick if the outcome of the hearing favors TCB. Not in a million years will the monkeys in white allow this to disrupt their plans to install the old bitchy Halimah Yacob.