SINGAPORE: Three candidates were nominated Tuesday to run in Singapore's first contested presidential vote in more than a decade next week, officials ...
Presidential candidate Ng Kok Song waves after a speech at the nomination centre for the presidential election in Singapore on August 22, 2023. AFPPIX: Three candidates were nominated Tuesday to run in Singapore's first contested presidential vote in more than a decade next week, officials said.
Former senior minister, deputy prime minister and central bank chief Tharman Shanmugaratnam, 66, is seen as the frontrunner.Another candidate to qualify is Ng Kok Song, 75, who previously served as chief investment officer at GIC, one of the world's biggest sovereign wealth funds, which manages Singapore's foreign reserves.
Singapore requires presidential candidates to have served either as a senior civil servant or the chief executive of a company with shareholder equity of at least Sg$500 million . The president can veto appointments to key public offices and authorise corruption investigations even if the prime minister has declined to do so, though this has been rare in practice.
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