Now that we have 4 candidates to choose from, some may find this even more challenging to cast their vote compared to the General Election.

But, it is not that complicated.

First, you should establish your own criteria for a President. The criteria would include both subjective and rational considerations of your choice. Let nobody tell you what they must be. However, I can bet that within your criteria, one of which would be whether a candidate can pass your visual and auditorial criteria for a President. Does he look like a President? Does he sound like a President? There is Chinese saying that a person may be wearing a royal robe, but still looks like a eunuch. Although this may not be politically correct statements to make, we are humans and can be excused for using abit of “discrimination” in our assessment for a future President.

The rational criteria will depend on your personal values and believes of what kind of politics you want to have a hand in shaping. All 4 candidates have made their stand very clear about what they want to bring to the Presidential office. If you want more opposing views and a person who will not bow to the government, you know the candidate whom have stepped up from an opposition party. If you want more consensus building approach in a President, you know the candidate whom have proposed to establish his own Presidential Council comprising people from wide spectrum of the society. If you want a President whom will fight for Singaporeans’ rights and “Singaporeans first” approach, you have seen and heard the candidate whom had headed the first Feedback channel of the PAP government. A candidate whom has no qualms in speaking out in Parliament against some of the policies whom he felt strongly against while being a PAP MP. If you want a time tested politician whom have the personal network and experience in dealing with the Singapore government as well as foreign government, a person whom have the financial literacy and capabilities to undertake one of the key roles of a President in being the custodian of Singapore’s reserves, it seems that there is only ONE.

The choice can be as clear as crystal, if you know what you are looking for. May the force be with you on voting day.