President of Singapore
The eighth and current president, Halimah Yacob, took office on 14 September 2017, becoming the first president elected as she was the sole eligible candidate under the new reform terms which took effect earlier that year. She is also the first female President of Singapore.
2023 Singaporean presidential election
The Singaporean presidential election of 2023 will be the sixth Singaporean presidential election. Following amendments to the Constitution of Singapore, the 2017 election was the first to be reserved for a particular racial group under a hiatus-triggered model, and was restricted to candidates from the minority Malay community, who had not held the presidential office since 1970.