SMU Assistant Professor of Law and NMP Eugene Tan responds to Mr Hri Kumar Nair's "No automatic by-election in our model of parliamentary democracy" (Feb 24) which claims that Prof Tan's commentary "The value of a by-election" (Feb 20) ignores the law and reason for by-elections in Singapore. Prof Tan points out that, in fact, Mr Hri Kumar glosses over the applicable law and ignores the basis of Singapore's model of parliamentary democracy, which has evolved from the United Kingdom model.
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