if he dare to play one on one for the next election.... anyone
can beat him lah... even that Dr Chee bk also can win him for
sure...
that's why they invented GRCs, pack the weak ones together and
hope for walkover.
That's why we have spineless people in parliament, only know how
to kowtow to Lee Kuan Yew.
Yawning
Bread. June 2006
Goh Chok
Tong admits that GRCs are meant to skew
As if Lee Hsien Loong's remarks denigrating Australia
were not enough to convince people how anti-democratic the
Singapore government is, Senior Minister (and former PM) Goh Chok
Tong has now provided more evidence.
In his latest speech, Goh said
that one of the purposes of Group Representation Constituencies [1] was to help People's Action Party
(PAP) candidates win election
easily.
There! He has admitted it. The State and its electoral system
have been corrupted to serve partisan ends.
Goh was quite brazen about it. He said that the role of GRCs was
not just to ensure minorities are adequately represented -– a
nearly 2-decades-old justification for GRCs. By doing so, he has
conceded that for the last 2 decades, the PAP been less than
truthful about their motives.
His logic was that the ends justify the means.
The PAP wanted to
put "younger and capable candidates" into Parliament, but they
might not want to risk their careers to join politics. Solution?
Remove risk. Change the electoral system.
Not only do we have a winner-takes-all effect in GRCs, in
practice, every GRC team is led by a minister or political
heavyweight and new candidates get into office by riding their
coattails.
The arrogance displayed by such distortions to a democratic
system that we inherited from the British may be bad enough, but
now, there is the added arrogance of Goh saying to the effect that:
Yes we distorted the system at the price of fairness, so what?
They are not
even ashamed of themselves.
http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2006/yax-615.htm
