Chee Soon Juan tries his luck yet again.

CSJ eyes Marsiling-Yew Tee! But ddn't he promise his supporters that he would stay in Bukit Batok 

and fight the next GE there? Onward Singapore

Note: We replace the original video soundtrack with something that we thought was more appropriate for this clown Chee. See the original video by Onward Singapore FB page here.

Chee Soon Juan is at it yet again.

He and his party is trying anything, and everything to agitate for a By-Election, so that Chee can have yet another shot at being elected into Parliament.

In a single seat constituency, the resignation of a MP automatically triggers a By-election.

This last happened for Bukit Batok constituency in 2016, where PAP MP David Ong had resigned due to personal indiscretions. Two candidates came forward - SDP's Chee Soon Juan (38.8% votes) and PAP's Murali Pillai (61.2% votes).

In 2017, Madam Halimah Yacob resigned her position as MP for the Marsiling-Yew Tee Group Representative Constituency (GRC) to stand as a candidate for the Singapore Presidential Elections.

What Chee would like you to believe, is that the Govt is flagrantly flouting the law by not calling for a By-Election to fill Madam Halimah Yacob's now empty seat in the GRC.

However, this is simply not the case.

Section 24(2A) of the Parliamentary Elections Act states that no writ of election can be issued unless ALL THE MPs in a GRC have vacated their seats in Parliament.

(2A)  In respect of any group representation constituency, no writ shall be issued under subsection (1) for an election to fill any vacancy unless all the Members for that constituency have vacated their seats in Parliament.

Parliamentary Elections Act (Chapter 218), Section 24(2A)

Madam Halimah Yacob's resignation does not mean that all of the four seats of Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC are now empty. This is because the GRC still has three other MPs - Mr Lawrence Wong, Mr Alex Yam and Mr Ong Teng Koon.

"Seriously, what makes Chee think by election is compulsory when one vacates the seat in a GRC?

Did he even read the constitution at all?" Pic: Shut Down TRS FB page

The 'FiveStarsAndaMoon Blog' also has a good summary on why the call for By-Elections cannot be mandatory here. Here's a quote:

Singapore’s system of election focuses on political parties rather than on individual candidates. Candidates represent their respective political parties, and the party that attains the highest number of elected candidates forms the government. 

The governing party then receives its mandate through its candidates. For this reason, the Prime Minister retains “full discretion as to when and whether to call a by-election as the vacancy does not affect the mandate of the government”. 

Ok, that is a mouthful, I’ll shorten it for you: A government had already been formed, there is no practical need to fill that one vacancy. The Government of the day will decide on whether or not an election should be called. 

That had been the precedence since 2008 and if it should ever be reviewed in Court, this will continue to form the precedent.

FiveStarsAndaMoon

So Chee continues to act according to his character - selling snake oil  twisting facts and misleading his way around, hoping to one day be elected into Parliament.

You would think that after all these years of rejection from the voters, that Chee would have finally gotten the message.

After all, Chee has stood in open elections 5 times, and have never been elected.

Look at his track record. Can you really trust this snake man?

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