WP Wants The Office Of Elected President Abolished

Do you know that it is in Workers' Party Manifesto 2011 to abolish the office of the Elected President? They want unfettered power in Parliament. 

"The Office of Elected President should be abolished and the Presidency should be reverted to its former ceremonial position. The power of Parliament as the people's representatives should be unfettered." - Manifesto 2011

What exactly are the duties of the Elected President? 

1. He holds the second key to our past reserves. No government can dip into past reserves without the consent of the President.
2.The President also has the power to overrule any prime minister who stops or holds up an investigation for corruption against any of his ministers, senior officials or himself.
The director of CPIB thus have two masters to back him, the prime minister and the president. If the prime minister refuses to move an investigation, the elected president who acts independently of the prime minister, can order the investigation to proceed. 

3. The president also has the veto on appointments to important positions like the Chief Justice, Chief of Defence Force, Commissioner of Police, the Attorney General, Auditor General and other key positions that uphold the integrity of the institutions of government.
They are key officers, essential for the government to function without being subverted. 

The Auditor General, for example, audit ministries and public agencies. Without the elected president, when a corrupted government takes over, the corrupted prime minister can change all the key people in these positions to suit himself. 

Can you trust dishonest politicians who also want to abolish the office of Elected President, who holds the second key to our reserves, and give themselves unfettered power in parliament? WP may not be the government today but they have every intention to form the government one day. 

Have you seen any one of the leaders in WP taking responsibility for the financial woes in AHPETC? No. Zero. 

What we have seen is the leadership of WP coming together to defend themselves, to declare that they have done well in AHPETC 'against all odds' to put it in Mr Low's words, and to continue to tell blatant lies to Singaporeans. 

Isn't it amazing that when they are being checked and balanced by the government, they cry 'dirty politics'? How is it 'dirty politics' when the facts are all in black and white? It was their own appointed auditors who qualified their accounts, not the government. Were their own appointed auditors playing dirty politics against them then?

The story of Mr Low telling Parliament that he would investigate who asked for extra quotations for cleaning and then making a complete u-turn the next day saying that he was satisfied and no investigation was needed WITHOUT ANY EXPLANATION is well known. Why did he change his mind?

In Parliament, when his MP, Pritam Singh was pressed to answer questions on the finances in AHPETC, he rose to defend Pritam Singh by saying that he did not see the need for his individual MPs to answer questions.

WP is not a responsible party. It is a party for themselves. It is a dangerous party. 

Vote wisely. Vote out this dangerous party.