Seven days has passed on since the dissolution of the parliament on 23rd Jun. Many parties are working hard on preparing for the elections. My mother didn’t seem very interested in the coming election, saying that whether who wins the elections, we still has to work to earn a living. Although this is true at a certain extent, but bad policy from a poor government could spell disaster for our future lives.
There are 12 opposition parties in Singapore, including the newest red dot United (RDU) contesting for 93 seats. Days leading up to nomination days has shown some dramatic events. One day after the dissolution of the house, news of LKY’s son, Lee Hsian Yang joining the opposition party (PSP) shook the world. Workers party took a surprising conservative tactic, contesting only 21 seats. PSP also contested only in 24 seats. Looking at these, a change of government in this election is almost impossible.
The previous party (singfirst) that had come to jurong on the 2015 election has surprisingly self-disbanded few days before the nomination day. PSP didn’t want to contest in jurong and SDP is not coming either, probably because there was a powerful mr Tharman here, and there are no chance of winning , but fortunately , the new RDU party has decided to come to jurong to challenge Tharman and give jurong residents a chance to vote. I never believe RDU would ever win, but I hope they could get some pretty good results (30 percent)
In regards to the famous Ivan Lim saga, PAP has introduced Ivan as a potential new PAP candidate for the election, posing to be fielded in my GRC (Jurong). Within hours of the introduction, many negative comment appear on the Facebook from either his school mates, army mates or work colleagues and most comments rallied about his elitist and non-compassionate behavior. In spite of all the denial and reasons he give, the negative comments only serve to grow more. At the end of the day, he has to withdraw his candidacy. What lesson can we learn from such a saga? Although all the allegations cannot be independently verified for now, it tell us a valuable attitude a good candidate should possess and that’s is being humble. As for my personal opinion, Ivan should have eaten the humble pie and apologies for all the allegations. Since all the allegations come from his ex-classmates or friends, he could have just called them to patch up, and things won’t get to be so bad. After all, if he stands in Jurong, 99.99 % chances he will be MP, and if he isn’t humble enough, many jurong residents might have to repent for the next 5 years
On the nomination day, all the process were very smooth. All the constituency were being contested, no walkovers. The opposition surprising kept 3 corners to the minimum ( only 1 GRC and 1 SMC has 3 corner fights ), that’s a good thing , I think. On the sad part, LHY didn’t participate in the election as I hope. His participation would have increased the chances of winning at tanjong pagar and denying CCS his parliament seat. On the surprising part, Mr. Heng turn up to contest in the WP strong ward of East Coast GRC. This is definitely a gamble for Mr. Heng as the future PM in waiting and it might be good for him if he is able to win the toughest battle. But if he loses in east coast (and I hope he lose), PAP will have to source for a new PM. This will be the most hotly contested seats in the GE2020
Looking forward, since there were no physical rally this time round, I should spent most of the night watch e-rally at home. Results wise, I hope the opposition could pull a good results in all of the WP contested wards (21 seats), west coast and tanjong pagar (10 seats), 2 seats from SDP (bukit batok and Bukit panjang) and one from potong pasir.
写到这里，一个人也要很开心
GOD bless every time
慧台
In regards to the famous Ivan Lim saga, PAP has introduced Ivan as a potential new PAP candidate for the election, posing to be fielded in my GRC (Jurong). Within hours of the introduction, many negative comment appear on the Facebook from either his school mates, army mates or work colleagues and most comments rallied about his elitist and non-compassionate behavior. In spite of all the denial and reasons he give, the negative comments only serve to grow more. At the end of the day, he has to withdraw his candidacy. What lesson can we learn from such a saga? Although all the allegations cannot be independently verified for now, it tell us a valuable attitude a good candidate should possess and that’s is being humble. As for my personal opinion, Ivan should have eaten the humble pie and apologies for all the allegations. Since all the allegations come from his ex-classmates or friends, he could have just called them to patch up, and things won’t get to be so bad. After all, if he stands in Jurong, 99.99 % chances he will be MP, and if he isn’t humble enough, many jurong residents might have to repent for the next 5 years
On the nomination day, all the process were very smooth. All the constituency were being contested, no walkovers. The opposition surprising kept 3 corners to the minimum ( only 1 GRC and 1 SMC has 3 corner fights ), that’s a good thing , I think. On the sad part, LHY didn’t participate in the election as I hope. His participation would have increased the chances of winning at tanjong pagar and denying CCS his parliament seat. On the surprising part, Mr. Heng turn up to contest in the WP strong ward of East Coast GRC. This is definitely a gamble for Mr. Heng as the future PM in waiting and it might be good for him if he is able to win the toughest battle. But if he loses in east coast (and I hope he lose), PAP will have to source for a new PM. This will be the most hotly contested seats in the GE2020
Looking forward, since there were no physical rally this time round, I should spent most of the night watch e-rally at home. Results wise, I hope the opposition could pull a good results in all of the WP contested wards (21 seats), west coast and tanjong pagar (10 seats), 2 seats from SDP (bukit batok and Bukit panjang) and one from potong pasir.
写到这里，一个人也要很开心
GOD bless every time
慧台
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