Should SGs Accept Perversion of Constitution by 1 Familee? ComeOn, This YOUR Country!

[makapaaa]

[h=2]& Not the the heirloom of 1 Familee!

Constitution – No Elections to Fill MP Vacancies[/h]

August 2nd, 2012 |

Author: Contributions

“There is no requirement in the Constitution to call elections to fill elected Member vacancies,” – Justice Philip Pillai

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The much awaited decision of the Vellama Muthu versus the PM case is out. And it is now clear, a ruling by a high court judge, that according to the Constitution, there is no need to fill the vacancies of a constituency if it is empty for whatever reasons. And the judge also ruled that the PM has absolute discretion whether to call an election to fill the vacancy of an elected Member.

Is that the final answer? Apparently yes. Can make a call for help? An appeal against this interpretation of the law? I don’t think there will be any other interpretation unless the Constitution is amended. So the people would now have to live with a constituency without an elected MP if the bugger buzzed off during his term of office for some reasons until the PM decided otherwise.

That must be the intention of the Constitution and must be good for the people. Constituents who go voting must now think doubly hard when they go to the poll. They must check the health and conduct of the candidate before voting just in case the bugger mati half way or kenna exposed for something and forced to resign. Then they can be left with no MP throughout the term.

The legislators must have seriously thought through this before writing the law into the Constitution, and this is good for the people and country. And technically if after 3 days of an election, an MP is knocked out for some reasons, just too bad. Under the Constitution and under this latest judicial interpretation, it is possible to have no MP to serve the constituents.
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Chua Chin Leng aka redbean
*The writer blogs at http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.ca/
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[steffychun]

Re: Should SGs Accept Perversion of Constitution by 1 Familee? ComeOn, This YOUR Coun

There's no provision in the constitution to have so many DPMs Senior Ministers of States....

 

[jw5]

Re: Should SGs Accept Perversion of Constitution by 1 Familee? ComeOn, This YOUR Coun

There's no provision in the constitution to have so many DPMs Senior Ministers of States....

There can be DPMs and Senior MOS but give each and every appointment holder a portfolio.
There is no reason why there should be ministars "in the PM's office" or ministars/MOS who are in charge of this or that project or program, but have no portfolio.
It's not as if they crunch the numbers, write the reports or settle each and every problem themselves for pete's sake.

 

[steffychun]

Re: Should SGs Accept Perversion of Constitution by 1 Familee? ComeOn, This YOUR Coun

There can be DPMs and Senior MOS but give each and every appointment holder a portfolio.
There is no reason why there should be ministars "in the PM's office" or ministars/MOS who are in charge of this or that project or program, but have no portfolio.
It's not as if they crunch the numbers, write the reports or settle each and every problem themselves for pete's sake.

There's no provision in the constitution to have a decrepit old man still as MP either

 

[laksaboy]

Re: Should SGs Accept Perversion of Constitution by 1 Familee? ComeOn, This YOUR Coun

The Singapore Constitution is not worth the paper its printed on.

There are quite a few special 'clauses' that revoke the fundamental rights of the people during 'exceptional' circumstances.

For example, go to http://statutes.agc.gov.sg and look up 'freedom of assembly'. Read for yourself.
I'm sure you can easily find other examples.

In other words, the Singapore Constitution is nothing more than a blank cheque for tyrants. Hardly surprising.

 

[mscitw]

Re: Should SGs Accept Perversion of Constitution by 1 Familee? ComeOn, This YOUR Coun

What constitution? You bobo Asiatic peasants are under the age old rule of god kings? Need to kowtow to Ruler Loong 5 times daily to get the silly idea of constitution out of your arses....what constitution? Are you baboons living in Nordic European countries? Wake up, its just a basketcase South East Asia...

Drug lords Burmese
Wife beating Viets
Friendly Thais who kenna screwed by BKK elite merchants
Maha Rajahs ruling over dumbo Indos
13 Sultans organising sex orgies annually
Cambodians/Laotians who sell their children to sex merchants
And finally Peasantpore who love to tax the poor to help the poor....sham republic!