Wong Souk Yee v AG [2019] SGCA 25 the event that a minority community Member (“minority Member”) of that GRC were to step down in order to contest a presidential election. Mr Chan Chun Sing, then Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, replied that there would be no need to call a by-election if a single minority Member of a GRC were to resign. 8 As we have already noted, on 7 August 2017, Mdm Halimah resigned her seat as a Member for MYT GRC to stand for the 2017 Presidential Election. No by-election was called, and MYT GRC continues to be represented by the remaining Members of the PAP team which won that constituency in the 2015 General Election. The proceedings below 9 On 13 September 2017, the SDP and the Appellant filed Originating Summons No 1034 of 2017 (“OS 1034”) in the High Court seeking leave to apply for the following reliefs: (a) a mandatory order that the three remaining Members of MYT GRC vacate their seats, and that thereafter, a by-election be held “with all convenient speed” for MYT GRC; (b) a declaratory order that s 24(2A) of the Parliamentary Elections Act (Cap 218, 2011 Rev Ed) (“the PEA”) must be interpreted as requiring all the remaining Members of a GRC to vacate their seats when a Member of the GRC vacates his or her seat, or, in the alternative, where the only minority Member of the GRC vacates his or her seat; and (c) in the alternative, a declaratory order that s 24(2A) of the PEA is void for inconsistency with Art 49(1) of the Constitution. 4