What kind of party is Workers' Party? A party that is interested in working with the government to better the lives of Singaporeans or a self-serving party?
It is in their manifesto 2011 to abolish the Presidency.
Yet when invited by the Constitutional Commission on the Elected Presidency to attend a public hearing where they can make oral representation and provide clarifications on their written submission, they DECLINED.
They intend to debate the matter in Parliament instead.
They could attend the public hearing to make oral representations and clarfy their position which will be very helpful in the review of the Elected Presidency AND STILL debate the matter in Parliament.
So why does WP not want to attend the public hearing on such an important matter?
One is reminded of how Sylvia Lim also declined to attend 'Our Singapore Conversation' to share their ideas for a better Singapore. At that time she said that WP had a different platform to air their views and that platform was Parliament.
Workers' Party expect to debate in Parliament, to ask questions and to be given answers. Yet in Parliament, they refused to answer questions. Pritam Singh famously said that he would answer only to his residents. And Chief Low Thia Khiang had risen to Pritam's defence and said that he did not see any need for his MPs to answer questions in Parliament.
During the general election in 2015, Workers' Party was invited to a free flow spontaneous unedited election debate organized by 'inconvenient questions'? The debate was attended by PAP, SDP and SPP. Inconvenient questions went out of their way to invite WP but WP declined to join this no holds barred debate.
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