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23-08-2013, 12:00 AM
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For Koh, the provision that allows the "best-loser" candidates to enter parliament with the same powers as duly-elected MPs does not hold water.
"(This scenario) cannot be the case," she said. "If they are best losers, they cannot have the same standing as duly-elected MPs (and) must have reduced powers, perhaps like NCMPs currently."
Koh echoed Tan's concern of MARUAH's proposed provision, adding that "their system will place even greater scrutiny on the ethnic balance, the percentage of MPs from the four main ethnic categories in Singapore, and yet without direct means by which minority communities feel they can influence things".
She said that the group has to convince the public and its leaders that Singapore's electorate does indeed look beyond ethnicity when voting people into parliament. "My sense is that a broad segment of the public accepts that the GRC system as one that balances quite a lot of considerations," said Koh.
- http://sg.news.yahoo.com/political-a...025003999.html (http://sg.news.yahoo.com/political-analysts-caution-against-reverting-to-all-smc-system-025003999.html)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?160683-Eugene-and-Gillian-disagree-with-MARUAH-s-SMC-proposals&goto=newpost).
For Koh, the provision that allows the "best-loser" candidates to enter parliament with the same powers as duly-elected MPs does not hold water.
"(This scenario) cannot be the case," she said. "If they are best losers, they cannot have the same standing as duly-elected MPs (and) must have reduced powers, perhaps like NCMPs currently."
Koh echoed Tan's concern of MARUAH's proposed provision, adding that "their system will place even greater scrutiny on the ethnic balance, the percentage of MPs from the four main ethnic categories in Singapore, and yet without direct means by which minority communities feel they can influence things".
She said that the group has to convince the public and its leaders that Singapore's electorate does indeed look beyond ethnicity when voting people into parliament. "My sense is that a broad segment of the public accepts that the GRC system as one that balances quite a lot of considerations," said Koh.
- http://sg.news.yahoo.com/political-a...025003999.html (http://sg.news.yahoo.com/political-analysts-caution-against-reverting-to-all-smc-system-025003999.html)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?160683-Eugene-and-Gillian-disagree-with-MARUAH-s-SMC-proposals&goto=newpost).