must all be members of the same political party, or a group of independent candidates. For the purposes of the 2020 general election, there were 93 electable seats in Parliament organised into 14 SMCs and 17 GRCs. Six GRCs were designated as four-member wards, 11 as five-member wards. 11 GRCs were designated as wards for which at least one member of the Malay community had to be fielded as a candidate, and six as wards for which at least one member of the Indian or some other minority community had to be fielded. Qualifications for Parliamentary candidates Persons are qualified to be elected or appointed as MPs if: they are Singapore citizens; they are 21 years of age or above on the day of nomination for election; their names appear in a current register of electors; they are resident in Singapore at the date of nomination and have been so resident for an aggregate period of not less than ten years before that date; they are able, with a degree of proficiency sufficient to enable them to take an active part in Parliamentary proceedings, to speak and, unless incapacitated by blindness or some other physical cause, to read and write at least one of the following languages: English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil; and they are not otherwise disqualified from being MPs under Article 45 of the Constitution Article 45 provides that persons are not qualified to be MPs if: they are and have been found or declared to be of unsound mind; they are undischarged bankrupts; they hold offices of profit; having been nominated for election to Parliament or the office of President or having acted as election agent to a person so nominated, they have failed to lodge any return of election expenses required by law within the time and in the manner required; they have been convicted of an offence by a court of law in Singapore or Malaysia and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of not less than one year or to a fine of not less than S$2,000 and have not received a free pardon; they have voluntarily acquired the citizenship of, or exercised rights of citizenship in, a foreign country or has made a declaration of allegiance to a foreign country; or they are disqualified under any law relating to offences in connection with elections to Parliament or the office of President by reason