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- 13 September, 2017
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Baku. 13 September. REPORT.AZ/ A former speaker of Singapore parliament, Halimah Yacob, was set to become the city-state’s first woman president after other candidates did not qualify for the contest.
Report informs citing the TASS.
63-year-old H. Jacob is also the first president elected from the Malay community for 47 years.
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