Elections!

The ruling regime has till about mid-2007 to call for general elections. But the sad thing about the whole affair is that we have a system that continues to honour "walkovers". Walkovers, should be, IMHO, made illegal and inapplicable in the case of elections. What we have seen in previous so-called General Elections, is that on nomination day, the ruling regime has essentially been handed the keys to the next government. All because there was no one to contest.

Together with the now defunct, The Roundtable, I have stated in 2001 and repeated in my NMP application, that every electoral contest must have a minimum number of votes in favour of the winning candidate. So, if there is only 1 contestant, that contestant must garner, say 30%, of the valid votes in favour before she gets the seat in parliament. The bulk of the people sitting in parliament today do not have a single mandate to sit there. They were never voted in. Just as President S R Nathan, they do not have the moral or ethical stand to represent Singapore. They got in on technicality. Shame on you.

The argument has been made that no ruling party will want to make it easier for another party to take over power from them. While that might sound logical, what I am asking for here is a fair playing ground. A ground on which, I as a citizen am able to exercise my fundamental human right to vote. I am sure this nonsense of walkovers is a contravention of the United Nations Convention on Human Rights.

Please join me in signing the petition. We have to fix it NOW!