I was RIGHT to predict, and actually begged for, a no contest reserved Malay EP!
The whole episode is a FARCE. SURREAL. Unimaginably clumsy in its execution! The 'true intention' unfortunately being questioned as a result.
Now that it is DONE. Maybe the government and PM Lee or his successor can learn a few lessons like:
1. the EP Act should NOT allowed any EP applicants to make ANY STATEMENT until nomination day and the 'nomination officially cleared'! Otherwise it is a like a circus with 'applicants who DO NOT qualify' to speak and raise the common people's hope - NOT that these lot of applicants had done that;
2. be more subtle about the whole intention to HAVE ONE of your FAVOURITE choices be a shoo-in qualified EP applicant like Mdm Halimah. Would be great if the Minister without Portfolio Chan CS NOT unwittingly or 'slip-of-his-tongue' addressed Mdm Halimah as 'Mdm President' instead of 'Mdm Speaker' WAY AHEAD of her public declaration of wanting to contest the reserved Malay EP contest!;
3. be careful with the details as the 3 reserved Malay EP applicants are technically NOT fully Malay as 2 have Indian father and the other is of Pakistani origin! Maybe it would had been more accurately known as a 'reserved for Muslim EP' instead of 'reserved for Malay EP'! YET, even this will NOT appeased detractors and objective observers that brining RELIGION into the EP system is another mistake if done!!;
4. lastly, make sure that GOOD INTENTION yields GOOD RESULTS and create GOOD FEELING. Given the facts raised in point no. 3 above, the Malay, maybe some of them, will feel that they have not progress far enough in the last 52 years to produce even 3 'qualified EP candidates'! This, in a reserved Malay EP that was supposed to affirm the achievement of the Malay!
Welcome to the Istana Mdm President! 1st female EP! 1st HDB-flatted EP!
The whole episode is a FARCE. SURREAL. Unimaginably clumsy in its execution! The 'true intention' unfortunately being questioned as a result.
Now that it is DONE. Maybe the government and PM Lee or his successor can learn a few lessons like:
1. the EP Act should NOT allowed any EP applicants to make ANY STATEMENT until nomination day and the 'nomination officially cleared'! Otherwise it is a like a circus with 'applicants who DO NOT qualify' to speak and raise the common people's hope - NOT that these lot of applicants had done that;
2. be more subtle about the whole intention to HAVE ONE of your FAVOURITE choices be a shoo-in qualified EP applicant like Mdm Halimah. Would be great if the Minister without Portfolio Chan CS NOT unwittingly or 'slip-of-his-tongue' addressed Mdm Halimah as 'Mdm President' instead of 'Mdm Speaker' WAY AHEAD of her public declaration of wanting to contest the reserved Malay EP contest!;
3. be careful with the details as the 3 reserved Malay EP applicants are technically NOT fully Malay as 2 have Indian father and the other is of Pakistani origin! Maybe it would had been more accurately known as a 'reserved for Muslim EP' instead of 'reserved for Malay EP'! YET, even this will NOT appeased detractors and objective observers that brining RELIGION into the EP system is another mistake if done!!;
4. lastly, make sure that GOOD INTENTION yields GOOD RESULTS and create GOOD FEELING. Given the facts raised in point no. 3 above, the Malay, maybe some of them, will feel that they have not progress far enough in the last 52 years to produce even 3 'qualified EP candidates'! This, in a reserved Malay EP that was supposed to affirm the achievement of the Malay!
Welcome to the Istana Mdm President! 1st female EP! 1st HDB-flatted EP!
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