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Tan Jee Say for presidential Certificate of Eligibility for Presidential Election eligibility submits forms 2011
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Mr Tan Jee Say, an ex-principal private secretary to former prime minister Goh Chok Tong, stood as an opposition candidate in the May 7 General Election. -- ST PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN

FORMER senior civil servant Tan Jee Say arrived at the Elections Department to submit his application forms for a certificate of eligibility to contest the coming Presidential election.

The 57-year-old, the fourth presidential hopeful to apply for a certificate, was accompanied by his wife Patricia, 50, and a group of supporters.

Mr Tan, an ex-principal private secretary to former prime minister Goh Chok Tong, stood as an opposition candidate in the May 7 General Election. He was part of the four-man Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) team that lost to the PAP in the contest for the Holland-Bukit Timah GRC.

He has since resigned from SDP to run for president and said previously that he believes he will meet the eligibility requirements. A person can qualify to be a presidential candidate in several ways, including if he had been the chairman or chief executive of a Singapore company with a paid-up capital of at least $100 million.

Mr Tan was regional managing director of AIB Govett Asia, a Singapore-registered asset company, from 1997 to 2001. During this period, the company's paid-up capital was less than $100 million but he said that it managed 'several hundred million dollars' in invested funds.

The other presidential hopefuls are: former deputy prime minister Tony Tan, 71, and ex-NTUC Income chief executive Tan Kin Lian, 63, both of whom submitted their application forms on July 7; former PAP MP Tan Cheng Bock, 71, who handed in his forms on July 22; and former JTC Corporation group chief financial officer Andrew Kuan, 57, who has yet to apply for a certificate of eligibility.

SINGAPORE: Former opposition party member, Tan Jee Say, has submitted his forms for a Certificate of Eligibility to contest the upcoming Presidential Election on Wednesday.

The former Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) member turned up at the Elections Department in Prinsep Street at around noon to hand in the forms for a Certificate of Eligibility to contest the Presidential Elections due by August.