S’pore’s integrity-based political system ‘rare and precious’: Indranee
Chin Soo Fang
Updated Fri, 6 March 2026 at 4:50 PM SGT
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Leader of the House Indranee Rajah speaking in Parliament on March 6, after nine days of debate on the government’s and ministries’ budgets.
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SINGAPORE - Rules and processes are important to Singapore’s parliamentary democracy, but even more important is that elected representatives have the competence, commitment and conscience to fulfil their duties, Leader of the House Indranee Rajah said on March 6.
If political leaders have these qualities, fewer rules are needed as they can be trusted to do the right thing.
“If they don’t, we can impose and improve as many laws and rules as we like, but democracy and politics will still go wrong,” said Ms Indranee in a speech that closed nine days of debate on the Government’s and ministries’ budgets.