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President Halimah Yacob's term of office was scheduled to end on 13 September 2023. The presidential election had to be held within three months of that date. [14] [15] Any Singaporean citizen who wished to be a candidate in the election had to apply and receive a Certificate of Eligibility (COE), as well as a community certificate. [16]
The Singapore Democratic Party had made preparations ahead of the election, and began their walkabout and campaigning around August 2023. [74] They also have announced on contesting Sembawang GRC for the first time since the 2011 election .
Election Deposit Between the date of the writ of election and 12:00 noon on nomination day, the applicant must submit a deposit amounting to three times of 8% of the total allowances payable to an elected Member of Parliament in the preceding calendar year, rounded to the nearest $500. [149] The deposit for the 2023 presidential election is S ...
Singapore's strict qualifying criteria has meant that all elections bar the vote held in 2011 and 1993 were uncontested. Tan was also one of four candidates who ran for president in the 2011 election.
Lee, the son of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, has held power since 2004 and is widely expected to step down after elections that must take place by early 2021.
Because of the stringent requirements needed to run for presidential elections, only three out of the seven elections had contests (1993, 2011 and 2023), while the rest were walkovers. An amendment to the Constitution in 2016 saw the 2017 election become reserved for a certain community ( Malay community in the case), resulting in that year's ...
[10] [11] On 2 September 2023, Tharman was announced as the winner after receiving 70.41% [12] of the vote in a landslide victory and was elected as the ninth president of Singapore. [13] He is the first presidential candidate not of Chinese descent to win in a contested presidential election in Singapore. [14]
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday said he will hand leadership of the ruling People's Action Party to Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong as soon as the party ...