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Set to cast your vote on July 10 but still scratching your head when it comes to Parliamentary terms such as “simple majority” and “supermajority”?
For the more sports-inclined, the Workers’ Party’s (WP) Leon Perera has just the analogy to break it down for you.
Allowing one political party to have a supermajority in Parliament is tantamount to giving a football club control of the English Premier League, Perera explained in a Facebook post today (July 6).
A supermajority refers to a situation in which one party holds more than two-thirds of the seats in Parliament, while a simple majority is when one party holds more than half of the seats in Parliament.
The People’s Action Party won 83 out of 89 seats up for election in 2015, achieving a 93 per cent supermajority.
With a simple majority, a party can amend and pass laws unilaterally. However, these laws will still be subject to the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore.
With a supermajority, the party has the power to amend the Constitution unilaterally.
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