Singapore to have new President

Tharman Shanmugaratnam will be sworn in as Singapore's ninth President on September 14 (Photo: AFP/VNA) 

The results released on early September 2 showed that Ng Kok Song, a former chief investment officer at sovereign wealth fund GIC, won 15.7% of the votes, and Tan Kin Lian, a former insurance company head under the national trade union body NTUC, received 13.9%.

Over 2.48 million Singaporeans voted in the first contested presidential election in over a decade.

It's a vote of confidence in Singapore, Tharman, most recently a senior minister in Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's cabinet, told the media.

Tharman will be sworn in as Singapore's ninth President on September 14./.

VNA