(communicated to me by Mr Ng Teck Siong, Chairman of Reform Party)

penned by J.B. JEYARETNAM
18 September 2008

An application has been presented to the High Court for a Declaration that

Article 49(1) of the Constitution is mandatory in its requirement that the vacancy in Parliament for a Member from Jurong GRC be filled by a by-election for his seat and the by-election should be held within 3 months from the seat becoming vacant.

The application will be heard on the 15th October 2008 at 10 am. I shall be arguing the application.

Reform Party Press Release
05 Aug 2008

By Ng Teck Siong, Chairman

What is all these argument on our constitution? It is a shame on the part of the law-makers that is the members of Parliament to allow such a situation of whether to hold a by-election or not in Bukit Batok which is in the Group Representation Constituency of Jurong to be pending. This confusing situation or contradictory laws in our constitution should not have happen if the law-makers in our parliament have done their work properly as representatives of the people in parliament. Isn’t we have being boasting and trumpeting to the whole world we have first world government and first class parliament in Singapore. That our ministers are of super talents and that they should be paid the average salaries according to the benchmarks of top class company CEO salaries in G8 industrialised nations. We in the Reform Party are very surprise by this situation.

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