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Ministry of Culture, Community & Youth
Parliamentary Matters

No public funds were expended to support IOC presidency campaign

Sectors

Sports

21 October 2013

Response to parliamentary question on the extent to which public funds and resources were expended for the IOC presidency campaign

Question

Ms Sylvia Lim: To ask the Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth to what extent are public funds and resources expended to support the campaign of the Singaporean candidate for the 2013 election for the Presidency of the International Olympic Committee. 

Response

Acting Minister Lawrence Wong: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is a non-governmental international organisation. IOC recruits and elects its own members, who in turn represent the IOC in their respective countries. Mr Ng Ser Miang, like other candidates, ran for the Presidency in his capacity as an individual member of the IOC. No public funds were expended to support his campaign.