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It may sound like a strange proposition that your Member of Parliament (MP) suddenly becomes your president. Yet this is exactly what happened in 2017 to the residents of Marsiling-Yew Tee, when Halimah Yacob was named Singapore’s eighth president and the first female to boot.
Prior to her appointment as head of state, she served as MP since 2001 as a People’s Action Party (PAP) member, first in Jurong Group Representation Constituency (GRC) and later in Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC.
She was also the first female Speaker of Parliament in history.
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