2005 Singaporean presidential election
Presidential elections were scheduled to be held in Singapore on 17 August 2005. 21 application forms for the Certificate of Eligibility required to contest were collected, and forms were submitted by four candidates. After considering the candidate's applications, the Presidential Elections Committee issued only one Certificate of Eligibility to the incumbent, Sellapan Ramanathan.
2005 Singaporean presidential election
Sellapan Ramanathan, often known as S. R. Nathan, was a Singaporean politician and civil servant who served as the sixth president of Singapore between 1999 and 2011. Nathan won both the 1999 presidential election and the 2005 presidential election thanks to an uncontested walkover due to ineligible candidates. He was the longest-serving president in Singapore's history and the only to serve two full terms.
Ramanathan in 2006
The Fullerton Hotel Singapore, formerly Fullerton Building. Nathan worked in the building in the 1950s as the Seamen's Welfare Officer with the Marine Department. In recognition of this, during his state funeral procession his cortège passed by the building.
S. R. Nathan receiving the United States Secretary of Defense William Cohen at the Istana during the latter's visit to Singapore
Nathan with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, 15 November 2009