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Halimah Yacob becomes first female President of Singapore

Former speaker of Singapore’s parliament Mdm Halimah Yacob (63 -years) has been declared as the President of Singapore.

She will become the country’s first female President and second Malay president for Singapore.

Under section 15 of the Presidential Election Act, declared Mdm Halimah to be elected to the office of President as only one candidate stands nominated at end of nomination period.

This year's Presidential Election was reserved for Malay candidates.

Halimah Yacob was educated at Singapore Chinese Girls' School and Tanjong Katong Girls' School, before going on to the University of Singapore where she completed an LLB (Hons) degree in 1978.

In 2001, she completed an LLM degree at the National University of Singapore and was conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from NUS on 7th July 2016.

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