Updated benchmarks needed for future presidential candidates: PM Lee
Constitutional commission to also look at ways to ensure periodic election of a minority candidate, study greater weight for presidential advisers
Singapore
CHANGES to Singapore's elected presidency system are afoot, chief among them the likelihood that the qualifying criteria will be tightened to ensure that only the most capable make the final cut.
The government is also mooting the idea of a mechanism to ensure that a minority candidate can be periodically elected if the country has not had a particular minority race as president for some time.
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