9 days of campaign passed in a whiz. During the campaign period, there were a lot of instance of crowd more than 5 or even more than 20 people, but fortunately, the COVID-19 cases didn’t jump up too much.
On my GRC wise, I did went out a few times around my neighborhood, I didn’t managed to meet up with any of the PAP candidates from Jurong JRC. Presumably they might be so confident in winning the GRC that walking around might not be necessary. After all, the danger of losing comes from the nearby west coast GRC, they might be just going there to help canvass for votes. On the TV, I do see Mr. Tharman going to Bukit batok to help Mr. Muralli.



On the other hand, I managed to meet The RDU candidates at Jurong west. They have been very hardworking these few days going around neighborhood, from Bukit batok, jurong west, Taman jurong and to clemeti. Compared to the previous opponent that comes before, 2015 (SingFirst) and 2011 (NSP), they are indeed more credible and sincere. But then, the team is simply too new to give any threat to Mr Tharman and his team. at the end of the nine day campaign, none of the candidates came to knock on my door. there's only once that family members of Mr tharman came instead, but we didn;t say anything.
On the day of polling, In order to reduce crowding on the polling station, everyone have been given different specific timing to go for voting. My mother considered as the elderly, got the morning slot, between 10am-12pm. I make a glimpse on the voting ground around 0930, and the place is already crowded with people queuing it. There were news (or rumors) that the pen chop given on the voting ground wasn’t functioning well, I decide to bring my pen along. When I reached the usual voting place (below HDB) where I have voted for the past 2 elections, there were dozens of people queueing up for voting. Due to the safe distancing, the queue were pretty long (around 200M) I think. I waited for 15 minutes before entering the place to vote. I was also given a compulsory one time gloves (which is a waste) to use. Finally, I marked on the party I wanted, drop the vote into the ballet box and left.

After dinner, I just stayed at home to watch the results of GE2020. Due to large numbers of people queueing in some polling stations, the ELD surprisingly extend the voting time to 10pm.According to the media, safe distancing and wearing of gloves are few of the main reasons for these mess-up. In some stations, compulsory use of gloves were removed to speed up the voting process
And finally, the sampling results were out around 12 midnight. In most of the seats, PAP has seen its votes shares dipped significantly. It’s very disappointing that the Opposition could not win the prized east Coast and West coast GRC, neither could Dr Chee and Dr Tambyah succeed in Bukit batok and Bukit panjang. However, there are still good news for the workers party. Besides holding on the aljunied and hougang, they managed to win the 4 seats Seng kang GRC, upsetting 3 ministers in the process. With this, they managed to win 10 seats (historical since independence of Singapore). 2 NCMP seats went to PSP too.


Going down the road, with PAP holding on the super majority in parliament, I don’t see any major changes in government policies. Mr. Heng should be in line to succeed the prime minister post in these one or two years, although I believe he would still have a tougher battle to fight at east coast next coming election. Just hope that the government could do more to reduce the living cost in Singapore, do another downward review on the minister’s salaries, and be more prudent in expensive government projects, so that Singapore can still be liveable for years to come
Election aside, time for us to move again as Singaporeans. Since today, COVID 19 cases around the world had exceeded 14Million and death toll coming to 600K. The future would have to be tougher before it gets better. Everyone need to stand behind the government effort to fight the virus, practice safe distancing and keep safe. Beside these efforts, I do wish more people taking up vegetarian and eat less meat, it would definitely be beneficial to the world.
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GOD bless every time
慧台