1. Although the President may ink the final document to pass it
as law, the various Members of Parliament that voted for the bill
are recorded and should be held accountable.
2. For the President to be able to have his Team on board, he
need them to be in place to approve his name on the list of
candidates for the Elected Presidency. It is all about having the
egg first and control the chick that comes out.
Current legislation - that determines the perimeters
of the Office of the Elected President - has been cleverly
designed by LKY to allow Parliament to over-ride any veto
from the Elected President by having the proposed Bill approved by
Parliament again.
The position of the Elected President was LKY's
long term strategy to place his own Man at the helm
to sabotage any success by the Alternative Parties in any Election
to usurp power from the PAP.
Unfortunately, since LKY's own PAP is the present
day Government, it is simply inconvenient for the laws
allowing the Elected President to "interfere" with the Government -
in the manner that the late President-Elect Ong Teng Cheong
did.
For the interim period, LKY find it more expeditious to trim
further the limited powers of the Elected President.
Could the President refer to the supreme court to
determine if the overiding factors by the parliment is within
the frame work of the law?
Could the late Ong Teng Cheong refer to the supreme court and
get a injunction for the govt to come up with a list of National
Treasure? if he wants to?
