The MPs are the voice of the people. The president is elected only for its role and entrusted with the tasks as stated in the constitution.
Tan Kin Lian and Tan Jee Say talk as if they have the right to tell the Government how to run the Country. They behave as if they know more about law than the Law Minister or the experts in constitutional laws.
The two of them who have never even been an MP before think they know more about the governing of a country than the ministers or MPs.
The President should also be a good and able diplomat, enhancing our image abroad. He should not be quarrelsome and confrontational.
If either of them were to be president, I think he would only bring disrepute to himself. Even people who had supported him would be disillusioned when they realized they had been fooled by empty promises in the campaign. Even foreign leaders would not respect him.
This is what I think:
Tan Jee Say has a personal agenda – to further the opposition’s cause, particularly the SDP.
Tan Kin Lian still feels sore about having to leave INCOME. He didn’t want to join an opposition party as an ordinary member to contest the general elections in May because he considered that below his status. An ordinary MP also gets little attention from the media.
Contesting in the presidential election under the slogan ‘Voice of the People’ boosts his egoism - the people give feedback to him instead of the MPs. He is more powerful than all the MPs combined.
