Raeesah Khan resignation: What happens to the Workers' Party MP seat for Sengkang GRC?

SINGAPORE: Ms Raeesah Khan resigned from the Workers’ Party on Tuesday (Nov 30) night time, successfully eradicating her from her place as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sengkang GRC. What’s subsequent for her vacant seat?Her resignation follows her admission that she had lied in Parliament about accompanying a sexual assault sufferer to the the police station.In a speech on a WP movement on empowering ladies on Aug 3, she had claimed that the case was mishandled by the police. With her resignation, WP members Ms He Tingru, Dr Jamus Lim and Mr Louis Chua are the remaining representatives of Sengkang GRC. What will occur to the Sengkang GRC group now that her seat is vacant? Does her place as the solely minority member of the group warrant a by-election? According to the Parliamentary Elections Act, a writ of election will solely be issued if all the MPs for the GRC have vacated their seats. If solely one in all the members vacates their seat, the GRC will proceed to be served by the remaining members of the GRC group. When President Halimah Yacob stepped down from her place as an MP in Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC to run for president in 2017, an analogous state of affairs arose. Like Ms Khan, Mdm Halimah was the solely minority member of the GRC group. When fielded for basic elections, every GRC group should embrace a candidate who's Malay, Indian or an individual belonging to different minority communities. In the case of Marsiling-Yew Tee, a by-election was not held, and Senior Minister of State at the Ministries of Manpower and Defence Zaqy Mohamad assumed the function of adviser to the ward following her departure. In a bid to push for a by-election for Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC, Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) member Wong Souk Yee in early-2019 known as on the courts to problem a compulsory order to compel its three MPs to step down. In the judgment laid out by the Court of Appeal, Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon stated that the problem of whether or not a by-election ought to be known as when the solely minority MP or another MP of a GRC vacates their seat was addressed by former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong in a 1988 speech he gave to the House. In the design of the laws behind the GRC scheme, it was Parliament’s intention that there can be no want to name for a by-election if one and even a couple of MP of a GRC had been to vacate their seat, he famous. A by-election would solely have to be known as if all the members representing the GRC vacated their seats, Chief Justice Menon burdened. Parliament was additionally “well aware” that the GRC scheme was “not perfect”, and there can be “trade-offs” in implementing the scheme, he stated at the time. 
 
The House had weighed concerns that had been “relevant” to the chosen safeguards in crafting the GRC scheme, he added. 
 
“In the context of this specific issue... the extraneous material makes it clear that Parliament had decided that there would be no such obligation because this was preferable to the alternative, which was the possibility that one member of a GRC team could hold the other members of the team to ransom,” stated Chief Justice Menon then.