Singapore: Parliament passed the Government’s S$123.7 billion (RM412 billion) plans for the coming financial year.
She was responding to a speech by Nominated MP Cheng Hsing Yao near the end of the debate on the Government’s Budget. He had laid out four principles that MPs here should follow to ensure that the Singapore Parliament would always be “an effective and respected political arena”.
“As MPs, we not only have to reflect the concerns of people and give voice to the aspirations of Singaporeans, but also exercise our judgment on issues and speak up for what we believe in, even if it is contrary to the prevailing or most popular view,” she said. “Those were scenes we never expected to see in America, the bastion of democracy, but they happened, and they happened as a result of deep polarisation. We can have different political philosophies, but what we must avoid in our Parliament is the politics of division,” she said.
“We know that there is no way that every single person would agree with every single thing, not within government, nor the opposition nor society at large. And this is natural, and it’s to be expected,” he said. “Do we promise dreams that cannot be fulfilled because we know that we don’t have to actually do it for real? Truth is, this is probably the norm in most societies. So the question again is, what do we want for our own society and Singapore?”“How much better we can be, if we begin to iron out the kinks, if we begin to actively seek to improve, and to develop better leaders at all levels.
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