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  • No Surprises In Workers’ Party Line-Up For 10 Battlegrounds

    No Surprises In Workers’ Party Line-Up For 10 Battlegrounds

    A snapshot of the Workers’ Party (WP) line-ups in its 10 battlegrounds at the Sept 11 polls has emerged on Nomination Day, with the party pulling no surprises yet.

    WP chief Low Thia Khiang, 58, chairman Sylvia Lim, 50, lawyer Pritam Singh, 39, and full-MPs Chen Show Mao, 54, and Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap, 40, are set to be defending the Aljunied Group Representation Constituency (GRC).

    The quintet have arrived on Tuesday (Sept 1) morning at the Raffles Institution, the nomination centre for the five-member constituency, along with Mr Koh Choong Yong, 42, a software engineer. He is likely again contesting the Sengkang West single-member constituency (SMC) like he did at the 2011 polls.

    The WP’s Nee Soon GRC team will comprise: Singapore Cancer Society manager Kenneth Foo Seck Guan, 38, managing partner of private investment business Luke Koh, 41, lawyer Gurmit Singh, 55, and sales consultant Cheryl Denise Loh, 31. They have arrived at the nomination centre at Yishun Primary School.

    Non-Constituency MP Yee Jenn Jong, 50, lawyer Terence Tan, 44, lawyer He Ting Ru, 32, bank wealth manager Dylan Ng, 40, and chocolate factory owner Firuz Khan, 48, could be contesting the Marine Parade GRC and have arrived at the Kong Hwa School.

    Funeral services company executive Bernard Chen, 29, is set to be fielded in MacPherson SMC and is also at the same nomination centre.

    The four potential WP candidates for the resurrected Jalan Besar GRC, medical social worker Frieda Chan Sio Phing, 39, polytechnic lecturer L. Somasundaram, 52, engineer Redzwan Hafidz Abdul Razak, 30, and businessman Adrian Sim Tian Hock, 43, have arrived at Bendemeer Primary School.

    NCMP Gerald Giam, 37, National University of Singapore sociology professor Daniel Goh, 42; consultancy firm CEO Leon Perera, 44; former associate librarian Mohamed Fairoz Shariff, 36; shipping law firm partner Dennis Tan, 45, were at the Aljunied Town Council office in Kaki Bukit and have boarded a bus set for Fengshan Primary School.

    It is the nomination centre for the East Coast GRC and Fengshan SMC. Mr Tan is likely to stand in the SMC as his team has split up with that of the other four WP candidates.

    Also at the same nomination centre was Punggol East MP Lee Li Lian, 37, who will be defending the constituency she won in a 2013 by-election.

    Hougang MP Png Eng Huat, 53, has also arrived at Poi Ching school, the nomination centre for the SMC that he won in a 2012 by-election.

    Hougang is the stronghold of the WP, held by Mr Low from 1991 till he left in 2011 and won the first GRC for the opposition.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Yaacob Ibrahim Terajui Pasukan PAP Jalan Besar GRC

    Yaacob Ibrahim Terajui Pasukan PAP Jalan Besar GRC

    Menteri Perhubungan dan Penerangan, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, akan menerajui pasukan Parti Tindakan Rakyat (PAP) bagi GRC Jalan Besar yang dibentuk semula bagi Pilihan Raya Umum akan datang.

    Selain Dr Yaacob, melengkapi pasukan PAP di GRC Jalan Besar ialah Menteri Negara Kanan (Pejabat Perdana Menteri), Encik Heng Chee How; Mayor Central Singapore, Cik Denise Phua; dan AP veteran, Dr Lily Neo.

    Pasukan itu dijangka menghadapi saingan daripada pasukan Parti Pekerja (WP).

    GRC Jalan Besar dibentuk semula dalam semakan sempadan kawasan undi baru-baru ini, menggantikan GRC Moulmein-Kallang.

    Semalam, PAP turut mengumumkan pasukannya bagi GRC West Coast, yang telah dikurangkan daripada GRC lima anggota kepada GRC empat anggota.

    GRC itu akan menampilkan anggota baru – Encik Patrick Tay.

    Tiga lagi anggotanya ialah Menteri Perdagangan dan Perusahaan, Encik Lim Hng Kiang; Menteri di Pejabat Perdana Menteri, Encik S. Iswaran; dan AP, Cik Foo Mee Har.

    Encik Tay menggantikan Menteri Kebudayaan, Masyarakat dan Belia, Encik Lawrence Wong, yang mengetuai GRC Marsiling-Yew Tee yang baru, bersama Speaker Parlimen, Cik Halimah Yaacob.

    Encik Tay, Penolong Setiausaha Agung Kongres Kesatuan Sekerja Kebangsaan (NTUC), sebelum ini adalah AP GRC Nee Soon.

    Encik Lim, yang menyertai politik pada 1991, akan memimpin GRC tersebut bersama Encik Iswaran.

    Encik Cedric Foo pula diumumkan akan kekal dalam Kawasan Undi Perseorangan (SMC) Pioneer.

    Sementara itu, GRC Chua Chu Kang melihat seorang muka baru – Encik Yee Chia Hsing.

    Beliau menggantikan Encik AlvinYeo, yang meninggalkan politik setelah berkhidmat selama dua penggal.

    Menteri Kesihatan, Encik Gan Kim Yong, kekal menerajui GRC tersebut.

    Anggota-anggota lain pasukannya ialah AP-AP Encik Zaqy Mohamad dan Cik Low Yen Ling.

    Selain PAP, parti pembangkang juga tidak melepaskan peluang mengadakan lawatan menemui penduduk di serata pulau.

    Dalam lawatan ke pasar dan pusat makanan Chong Pang, Pengerusi WP, Cik Sylvia Lim, mendedahkan kepada media bahawa AP partinya akan kekal di kawasan undi masingmasing mempertahankan kerusi Parlimen mereka.

    Sementara itu, Parti Rakyat Singapura (SPP) dan Parti Progresif Demokratik (DPP) masih mengadakan perbincangan menampilkan pasukan gabungan bertanding bagi GRC Bishan-Toa Payoh.

     

    Source: http://beritaharian.sg