Election for the Pres. Saturday. One of the candidates came up the street off North Bridge couple of days ago waving from the passenger seat of a car. Usual bright sky-blue colours. Years ago blue was thought to be a cold colour; since the colour of reassurance. Dr. Tan. There are four candidates in the election here. Four Tans. A simple fact. Unrelated. A couple-three other prospective candidates who put their names forward failed to gain approval to run from the electoral commission. One or two of these falling over because they had not headed a corporation with an annual turnover of $100m. Pre-condition of candidacy. Corporate Singapore. How could a chap run a corporation without the experience. Fair enough.
Scene set for Saturday, all the
indicators clear. Tony Tan has ticked all the right boxes. A former Deputy PM,
former PAP member (pledging independence in his new role). Endorsed by the
large Tan Clan Association. Couple of big unions. All the right noises from Lee
junior, the PM, and the other players and former players. Expect 60%, possibly
seventy or more. The ruling government achieved mid-sixties in the poll earlier
in the year. A wake-up call that one with six opposition members now in the
parliament.
A three and a half mil. speck island in this region hardly likely to
produce politics of the received sort.
May the best Tan win.
NB. In fact completely wrong: scraped in by 0.35%. Interesting. See
the post four years on titled “The World’s Most Successful Society”, Jan 2016
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