Just trying to raise a point :
I think new citizen should not have automatic voting rights. (All voting rights need to be earned.)
A 10/11/12 years (at least for 2 election cycle) citizenship "holding/waiting period" should be implemented for people who can vote, even for citizen.
Also the 10-12 years of waiting will let the new citizens "appreciate" the govt and their policies better (during the 10-12 years of waiting), and therefore better able to make a better decision after 10-12 years, before they earn the voting rights.
There is No issue for local born and bred Singaporean citizen anyway, we live and grow up in Singapore (some maybe overseas) but mostly waiting for 21 years to attain "adulthood" and the voting rights. So for most of us, it's 21 years waiting time before we can vote.
So Likewise, for new citizen, it cannot (and should not) be a automatic affair / way to allow automatic voting rights. Is this a valid point of concern? Let the people be the judge perhaps?
PS : Sorry to all new citizen. Maybe, I have to apologise (in advance) for making such a suggestion / raising such a point on voting rights. But I sincerely think this will only be fair where most native / local born and bred Singaporeans are concern. Hope any New Citizens reading this can better understand / empathize with and forgive us on how a native Singaporean feel, and maybe share our concerns too. Hope the New Citizens can understand this is really not against so much on New Citizens personally, but more rather is the mechanism of the voting rights that is concerned.
Calvin Koh
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