The Presidential Elections Committee has revealed the five companies that George Goh Ching Wah listed in his application to run for president, as it refuted his claim that the reason he was disqualified was not disclosed to him.
The PEC’s statement came hours after the Elections Department announced that Certificates of Eligibility have been issued to ex-Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, ex-GIC chief economist Mr Ng Kok Song, and ex-NTUC Income chief Tan Kin Lian. Mr Goh then said in a press statement that the PEC had taken a “very narrow interpretation of the requirements without explaining the rationale behind its decision” as he called the decision “not fair” and a “setback to Singapore”.
The PEC said, “As mentioned in the Committee’s letter to Mr Goh, Article 19 requires the Committee to consider whether an applicant has the experience and ability that comesthat comes from managing multiple smaller private sector organisations is notIn its statement, the PEC said that Mr Goh asked the Committee to regard the five companies as a single private sector organisation, despite the fact that the companies “are not a unitary company and are not owned by a common holding company.
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