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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

  • Nomination Day: What To Expect

    Nomination Day: What To Expect

    When the clock chimes 10 tomorrow morning, on Nomination Day, the nine nomination centres islandwide will be open to candidates’ supporters and the public.

    But before that, most candidates and their entourages would have gathered elsewhere for pep talks and final checks of forms.

    For members of the People’s Action Party, these meeting points are usually their branch office. Opposition party members typically gather at their party headquarters.

    Some smaller parties and independent candidates, however, may meet up outside their respective nomination centres.

    Police have advised people to arrive at the centres only after 10am.

    The critical hour begins at 11am.

    • NOMINATION CENTRES

      Bukit Panjang SMC and Holland-Bukit Timah GRC

    • Assumption Pathway School, 30, Cashew Road

      Jalan Besar and Tanjong Pagar GRCs, Radin Mas SMC

    • Bendemeer Primary School, 91, Bendemeer Road

      Chua Chu Kang GRC, Hong Kah North and Pioneer SMC

    • Chua Chu Kang Primary School, 20, Choa Chu Kang Avenue 2

      East Coast GRC, Fengshan SMC, Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, Punggol East SMC

    • Fengshan Primary School, 307, Bedok North Road

      Bukit Batok and Yuhua SMCs, Jurong and West Coast GRC

    • Keming Primary School, 90, Bukit Batok East Avenue 6

      MacPherson SMC, Marine Parade GRC, Mountbatten and Potong Pasir SMCs

    • Kong Hwa School, 350, Guillemard Road

      Hougang SMC and Tampines GRC

    • Poi Ching School, 21, Tampines Street 71

      Aljunied, Ang Mo Kio and Bishan-Toa Payoh GRCs and Sengkang West SMC

    • Raffles Institution, 1, Raffles Institution Lane

      Marsiling-Yew Tee, Nee Soon and Sembawang GRCs

    • Yishun Primary School, 500, Yishun Ring Road

    Candidates have one hour, from 11am to noon, to file their papers at the correct nomination centre.

    The administrative requirements they have to meet are strict.

    Nomination forms must be complete and submitted in duplicate by the candidates in person.

    These forms are: the nomination form, the political donation certificate, and the certificate issued by the Malay Community Committee or the Indian and Other Minority Communities Committee, if the candidates are to contest in a GRC.

    Candidates must be accompanied by a proposer, a seconder and at least four assentors.

    These individuals must be registered voters from the constituency that the candidates are contesting and have to be present when the nomination is filed.

    This is the stage where teams have tripped up or had close shaves.

    In 2011, a group of independents planning to contest Tanjong Pagar GRC turned up at around 11.30am at their nomination centre, but were disqualified after filing their nomination forms late.

    In the 2001 General Election, a Workers’ Party team was disqualified from contesting when its nomination papers were found to be incomplete, as it had not filled in a blank for the name of the ward it wanted to contest: Aljunied GRC.

    If candidates fill in their forms incorrectly, they must correct the problems flagged by the Elections Department – by noon.

    Objections to the nomination papers can be made in writing between 11am and 12.30pm by any rival candidate for the same constituency or any of the proposers, seconders or assentors.

    Each candidate must also fork out his or her election deposit of $14,500. This can be in cash, bank draft or cheque.

    If there is no contest in a constituency, the assistant returning officers at each centre will declare a walkover for that division.

    If there is a contest, the candidates’ names will be put up on a notice board at the centre.

    Candidates can also apply for permits to hold election meetings and vehicle processions in the areas they are contesting.

    The meetings can be held indoors or outdoors for eight days, from Sept 2 to 9, between 7am and 10pm.

    Candidates can use perambulating vehicles fitted with loudspeakers between 2pm and 10pm tomorrow, and between 7am and 10pm for the remainder of the campaign.

    Outdoor meetings, which can be held in stadiums, open fields and open spaces, must take place at the space specified in the permit.

    The list of outdoor rally sites will be released at the end of nomination proceedings tomorrow.

    Permit applications for meetings have to be made before 2.30pm the day before a scheduled meeting, except for those on Sept 2, for which the Police Elections Permits Office in the Police Cantonment Complex will accept applications until 4pm on Sept 1.

    Drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are banned at nomination centres, rally sites and assembly centres. Police have also said that non-citizens, bankrupts, persons who have been associated with criminal activity as well as primary and secondary students cannot take part in any election activity.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com