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  • SingFirst Party Harus Jelaskan Sama Ada Calon Bagi Tanjong Pagar GRC, Chirag Desai, Pernah Ditangkap Mencuri

    SingFirst Party Harus Jelaskan Sama Ada Calon Bagi Tanjong Pagar GRC, Chirag Desai, Pernah Ditangkap Mencuri

    Bila aku pertama kali nampak calon-calon SingFirst, nama Chirag Desai tu aku tengok macam aku kenal. Lepas aku tengok rally tadi, aku pasti yang Chiraj SingFirst ni orang yang aku kenal dulu.

    Tahun 2008 dia pernah kena tangkap kat Shangri-La Hotel sebab dia nak curi beberapa botol wain. Masa tu aku kerja kat sana jadi aku masih ingat ni kes. Aku ingat masa tu aku terfikir kenapa dia nak curi wain…kalau beras ke atau benda-benda keperluan lain dari kedai-kedai tu masih boleh faham. Benda-benda pelik gini dari hotel aku memang hairan.

    Sekarang ni dia jadi calon kat kawasan undi aku, aku terfikir juga akan kejujuran dia. Memang lah semua orang buat kesalahan, tapi lebih baik kalau dia terus terang dengan kita kalau dia seorang pencuri.

    Aku harap semua parti pembangkang dapat ikut jejak langkah WP dan tarungkan calon-calon yang berwibawa dan boleh dipercayai. Lebih-lebih lagi kat Tanjong Pagar ni di mana kita semua akan mengundi buat pertama kali setelah sekian lama. Semua calon harus jujur dan punya integriti. Tak salah buat kesilapan. Asalkan tak ulang kesilapan yang sama, orang akan percaya kau.

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  • Mengapa Faisal Manap Tidak Utarakan Isu-Isu Melayu/Islam Di Rapat Umum Workers Party?

    Mengapa Faisal Manap Tidak Utarakan Isu-Isu Melayu/Islam Di Rapat Umum Workers Party?

    Saya penduduk lama Hougang. Seumur hidup saya, saya dengan keluarga menetap di Hougang. Kami pun penyokong setia WP, terutama sekali Cik Muhamad Faisal kerana kami tahu dia banyak tolong penduduk susah di sini.

    Kami tahu dia orang yang sangat pentingkan hal-hal kemsyarakatan dan keagamaan.

    Namun bila dia memberi ucapannya semalam, saya terkilan yang dia langsung tidak sentuh tentang isu-isu yang membelenggu masyarakat Melayu Islam. Tiada sepatah dua tentang isu hijab mahupun isu diskriminasi masyarakat kita yang menyebabkan ramai terpinggir dan terkial-kial, tidak punya pekerjaan.

    Saya harap Cik Faisal akan mengutarakan isu-isu ini pada ucapan nya di rally yang akan datang. Ini penting bagi masyarakat Melayu kita agar tidak terpinggir dan ketinggalan.

     

    Idris

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  • The Most Brilliant Poster Placement In Propaganda War

    The Most Brilliant Poster Placement In Propaganda War

    The knives are out, the words are sharp, the war is well and truly underway – and so too the battle for visibility.

    The political parties rushed to put up their political posters soon after Nomination Day was over, with the usual face shots of candidates being hung in all the constituencies.

    They were the usual posters, really, which we have seen from past elections – smiling faces, all groomed meticulously to look their best. After all, these will be hung out to dry (literally) on streets and poles.

    They are made to look good because, you know what they say about “show face” – it can matter when it comes to the vote.

    But one political party has turned the poster war on its head with its brilliant placement decision.

    The Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA), which is really a very small opposition party, has not gone the way of the rest, and has instead chosen not to have its candidates faces appear on its posters.

    Instead, the posters have words and numbers which remind Singaporeans of the ruling party’s plans and failures.

    The decision to place these posters is the brilliance of this – they are placed under the posters of that of Lee Hsien Loong, the secretary general of the People’s Action Party (PAP), who is also the Prime Minister.

    Mr Lee’s posters are hung all over Singapore, even in constituencies where he is not the candidate. This has led to questions of whether it is against the elections laws.

    In such a case, in the SDA’s placements of its posters, the message is unmistakable – to remind voters of what Mr Lee stood for or what his government has in its plans.

    And they are not flattering, when the two posters – Mr Lee’s and the SDA’s – are taken together.

    One of them has the number “55” on it – a clear reference to the age of 55 when Singaporeans are supposed to have their CPF returned to them, except that the PAP government has refused to do so, despite its own promise.

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    The other poster has the number “6.9” on it – alluding to the 6.9 million population which the ruling party is using as a “planning parameter”, an issue which has unsettled and angered Singaporeans since it was revealed in the Population White Paper in 2012, one year after the last elections.

    Lin Shiyun had who posted the photos on his Facebook page:

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    Source: www.theonlinecitizen.com

  • Walid J. Abdullah: Respects To Tin Pei Ling But WP’s Bernard Chan Will Win Macpherson SMC

    Walid J. Abdullah: Respects To Tin Pei Ling But WP’s Bernard Chan Will Win Macpherson SMC

    Apart from my own GRC (East Coast), there are a few other wards that i believe would be worth paying attention to: Holland-Bukit Timah, Marsiling-Yew Tee, Marine Parade, and the SMCs of Fengshan, Potong Pasir, Hong Kah North, Mountbatten, and MacPherson.

    For MacPherson, it will be an interesting battle (i will ignore the NSP candidate because he will not be getting back his deposit). Tin Pei Ling, the parliamentarian with whom Singaporeans have a, shall we say ‘special’ relationship, will be contesting.

    To be honest, my respect for her has increased so much. In 2011, i was one of those who didn’t think much of her, after witnessing her campaign. But over the past 4 years, i think she has behaved in an extremely dignified manner, and the fact that she is contesting an SMC is a display of so much courage; even many of her more senior colleagues have never been through such a battle. Evidently, she is confident that she has done enough work on the ‘ground’ to be re-elected without riding on anyone’s coat-tails.

    I truly feel that she has transformed her reputation from a political joke to a serious parliamentarian. (Incidentally, the other person who was a bit of a joke during the 2011 hustings, Chan Chun Sing, has also impressed me in the past four years: so there may still be hope for the fist-pumper and mike-grabber.)

    Under normal circumstances then, i would be rooting for her.

    However…..

    Her opponent happens to be someone i know pretty well: a friend of 13 years, Chen Jiaxi Bernard. We went to JC together (Tampines JC, not some elitist school :p). He comes from a legtimately humble background (i know all politicians say that, but this is one that i can verify!).

    After JC, he did not enter university right away, but did not give up: he went to poly, then read history at NUS, and went on to do his Master’s at Oxford.

    But perhaps the most important thing to know about him is, he joined WP long ago. Way before 2011. And this matters in a huge way: it is easy to join a party when it is successful and then claim that ‘i have always wanted to serve the people’, but it is quite a different thing to join a party that did not seem like it was going to be a force to be reckoned with.

    It is something like this that serves as a far better gauge of sincerity than running from door-to-door on house visits (while being captured on video), taking selfies with residents, carrying random babies/cats/babies of cats, and posting statuses about how ‘people-ask-if-the-MPS-was-so-tiring-because-it-ended-at-2am-but-i-do-not-mind-it-at-all-since-what-matters-most-to-me-is-the-welfare-of-the-residents’.

    So, i shall throw my weight behind him and will be hoping for his victory.

    Either way, i think MacPherson residents will be in an desirable position.

     

    Source: Walid J. Abdullah

  • Kevryn Lim: ELD Confirmed All Parties Allowed To Put Posters Of Candidates Around Singapore

    Kevryn Lim: ELD Confirmed All Parties Allowed To Put Posters Of Candidates Around Singapore

    Is PM Lee contesting in all 16GRCs and 13SMCs this General Election? Is he running for the Presidential Election or General Election, as the MP of Ang Mo Kio GRC?

    We have enquired with Election Department today at 2.25pm and they said this is allowed as PM Lee is representing the party. They have also confirmed that any political party is allowed to do the same for their party as long as you represent your party.

    Therefore, in conclusion, all parties are allowed to put their posters around Singapore not necessarily limited to the constituency you are contesting in.

    – The above information is confirmed by the Election Department.

     

    Source: Kevryn Lim – 林彤臻