GE 2020 (election coming)

It has been 5 days since phase 2 of the pandemic recovery kick started. Most of the shops have reopened their shops, and we are allowed to eat in food courts and coffee shops. Since the pandemic is still on-going and there are still cases of community spread (single digit), there are still precautionary works to be done, and the government limit all outdoor activities to a maximum of 5 people. This include going to food courts and visiting friends and relatives. My mum started work, but I still work from home (until my manager informs me to go back to office).

Swimming pools was opened for public too, but the restriction make us very difficult to go swimming, the only allocated time (1830 – 2130) for the general public was very late (and little), and furthermore, we can only swim for an hour. My mother and I decided to postpone any visit to the pool until the rules was relaxed further.

At this crucial time, the government called for an election to be held on the 10th of July. Since the dissolution of the cabinet on the 23rd Jun, there are only 7 days to nomination day at 30th Jun and 9 days of campaigning to the polling days (the minimum days required)

I cannot understand why government choose to have election during this period when there is still high risk of the pandemic worsening in the coming weeks? Wouldn’t it be better if we focus on the pandemic and have the election during the phase 3 (or later) of the recovery period, so that everyone would feel safer going out to participate in any small size physical rallies?

The reason I guess, can only mean to ensure opposition has minimum time and opportunity to reach out to the public. There will be no physical election rally this time due to covid -19. Although there are e-rallies on the internet, it remain to be seen if it do have the similar effect compared to the physical rallies. There were also TV board cast allocated to different parties based on number of candidates, but The PAP will surely have a large chunk of time covered with all 93 candidates. To make things more skewed, the ruling party had started all kind of TV programs related to COVID -19 featuring many ministers and their “Good “job done.

Looking forward, the road to success look tougher for the opposition. As for my area (Jurong), I have yet to hear any opposition coming to my area. I just hope that all the opposition, whether WP or SDP or PSP could have a good performance, win enough seats to deny the PAP the 2/3 majority. If not, the life in Singapore could be tougher ahead.

I should stop for now , hope for the best in the days ahead, BE POSITIVE is important 写到这里，一个人也要很开心

GOD bless everytime 慧台