(Yahoo! photo) - The experience of the presidential election of
2011 could well be the most bruising, divisive and ugliest election
in Singapore’s history.
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Supporters for Dr Tony Tan and other candidates listen to
speeches. (Yahoo!)
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COMMENT
Seventeen years ago, the then Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr
Goh Chok Tong, sternly
warned government critics about what they could and could not
criticize, using the golfing term "out-of-bounds markers" which has
since then become part of the political lexicon.
But in the
General Election of 2011
(GE 2011), a newly emboldened, energized and subsequently
triumphant electorate went all the way of criticism, sparing no
personage in the People’s Action Party (PAP) leadership, no matter
how long feared, nor any PAP policy, no matter how well
established. Thus they removed, in one fell stroke, all the
hated markers, clearing the way for even the most outspoken
critic in the future.
But this time, the challenge is very much complicated by a
powerful counter-challenge by the government – the constitution
Catherine Lim
