Singapore President Candidate 2024. Three candidates have qualified to run in the election for the singaporean presidency on september 1, the country’s elections department (eld) announced on friday. Tharman shanmugaratnam, former singapore deputy prime minister, has been elected to the ceremonial post of president, according to official results, in an election seen as.

Singaporeans will be heading to the polls on sep 1 to vote for the country’s ninth president following the nominations of mr ng kok song, mr tharman. A qualified candidate for the presidential election has to be a singapore citizen, aged 45 years and above on nomination day, and has to have resided in singapore for at.