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80% of Singaporeans should be allowed to run for president

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States
United state

Eligibility

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution sets the principal qualifications one must meet to be eligible to the office of president. A president must:

be a natural born citizen of the United States;[27]
be at least thirty-five years old;
have been a permanent resident in the United States for at least fourteen years.

A person who meets the above qualifications is still disqualified from holding the office of president under any of the following conditions:

Under the Twenty-second Amendment, no eligible person can be elected president more than twice. The Twenty-second Amendment also specifies that if any eligible person who serves as president or acting president for more than two years of a term for which some other eligible person was elected president, the former can only be elected president once. Scholars disagree whether anyone no longer eligible to be elected president could be elected vice president, pursuant to the qualifications set out under the Twelfth Amendment.[28]

Under Article I, Section 3, Clause 7, upon conviction in impeachment cases the Senate has the option of disqualifying convicted individuals from holding other federal offices, including the Presidency.[29]

Under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Constitution prohibits an otherwise eligible person from becoming president if that person swore an oath to support the Constitution, and later rebelled against the United States. However, the Congress, by a two-thirds vote of each house, can remove the disqualification.

gnn why singapore so special as compare to america???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Singapore
Singapore

Qualifications

A person who wishes to run for the office of President has to fulfil stringent qualifications set out in the Constitution, which are as follows:

He must be a citizen of Singapore.[20]
He must not be less than 45 years of age.[21]
His name must appear in a current register of electors.[22]
He must be resident in Singapore at the date of his nomination for election and must have been so resident for periods amounting in the aggregate to not less than ten years prior to that date.[23]
He must not be subject to any of the following disqualifications:[24]

(a) being and having been found or declared to be of unsound mind;
(b) being an undischarged bankrupt;
(c) holding an office of profit;
(d) having been nominated for election to Parliament or the office of President or having acted as election agent to a person so nominated, failing to lodge any return of election expenses required by law within the time and in the manner so required;
(e) having been convicted of an offence by a court of law in Singapore or Malaysia and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of not less than one year or to a fine of not less than S$2,000 and having not received a free pardon, provided that where the conviction is by a court of law in Malaysia, the person shall not be disqualified unless the offence is also one which, had it been committed in Singapore, would have been punishable by a court of law in Singapore;[25]
(f) having voluntarily acquired the citizenship of, or exercised rights of citizenship in, a foreign country, or having made a declaration of allegiance to a foreign country;[26]
(g) being disqualified under any law relating to offences in connection with elections to Parliament or the office of President by reason of having been convicted of such an offence or having in proceedings relating to such an election been proved guilty of an act constituting such an offence.

He must be a person of integrity, good character and reputation.[27]
He must not be a member of any political party on the date of his nomination for election.[28]
He must have for a period of not less than three years held office —
as Minister, Chief Justice, Speaker, Attorney-General, Chairman of the Public Service Commission, Auditor-General, Accountant-General or Permanent Secretary;[29]
as chairman or chief executive officer (CEO) of the Central Provident Fund Board, the Housing and Development Board, the Jurong Town Corporation or the Monetary Authority of Singapore;[30]
as chairman of the board of directors or CEO of a company incorporated or registered under the Companies Act[31] with a paid-up capital of at least $100 million or its equivalent in foreign currency;[32] or
in any other similar or comparable position of seniority and responsibility in any other organization or department of equivalent size or complexity in the public or private sector which has given him such experience and ability in administering and managing financial affairs as to enable him to carry out effectively the functions and duties of the office of President.[33]

The strictness of these qualifications led to the 1999 and 2005 elections being walkovers as S.R. Nathan was the only qualified candidate on nomination day.[34]
 

Cestbon

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Anyone without criminal record should allow to be candidate. Let people vote. Those uneducated also can register if they confidence will be voted.
Stupid rule and regulation by PAP gov.
 

ivebert

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80% of Singaporeans have no university education

You sure you want a Poly Grad or Distance learning degree holder to be your President???
 

Char_Azn

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Anyone without criminal record should allow to be candidate. Let people vote. Those uneducated also can register if they confidence will be voted.
Stupid rule and regulation by PAP gov.

U seriously want jokers like LeeTahBah or Clinton666 to be president?
 
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