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  • Damanhuri Abas Soal Keupayaan Pemerintah Untuk Satukan Rakyat

    Damanhuri Abas Soal Keupayaan Pemerintah Untuk Satukan Rakyat

    Calon Melayu Parti Demokratik Singapura (SDP) Damanhuri Abas bagi GRC Marsiling- Yew Tee mempersoalkan keupayaan pemerintah untuk menyatupadukan rakyat.

    Beliau juga menuduh pemerintah “melontarkan syak wasangka” ke atas masyarakat Melayu, hanya kerana tindakan segelintir tahanan JI.

    Berucap di rapat SDP di Stadium Jurong Encik Damanhuri berkata sistem yang ada sekarang tidak mencerminkan ikrar negara yang memperjuangkan “rakyat yang bersatu padu”.

    Rakyat Singapura tegas beliau mahukan kepimpinan yang berjiwa rakyat dan ciri-ciri itu ada pada SDP.

    Maka itu, Encik Damanhuri mengajak rakyat beranikan diri menggantikan apa yang beliau sebut sebagai kekurangan yang ada pada sistem sekarang.

    “Ia hanya boleh berlaku kalau jika terdapat pembangkang yang ramai, kuat dan berani di parlimen. Selagi tiada suara pembangkang di parlimen betapa kuat kita berteriak di luar, tiada kesan yang akan mengubah keadaan kita,” kata Encik Damanhuri.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Calon SDP Sidek Mallek Akui Kelakonannya Harus Diperbaiki Jika Ingin Yakinkan Orang Melayu

    Calon SDP Sidek Mallek Akui Kelakonannya Harus Diperbaiki Jika Ingin Yakinkan Orang Melayu

    Calon Parti Demokratik Singapura (SDP), Sidek Mallek, mengakui kelakonannya perlu diperbaiki jika ingin meyakinkan masyarakat Melayu/Islam bahawa beliau layak dilantik menjadi suara mereka di parlimen nanti.

    Beliau berkata demikian sebagai menjawab kritikan yang diterimanya setelah enggan menjawab soalan dalam bahasa Melayu sewaktu sesi pengenalan calon SDP baru-baru ini.

    “Hari pertama saya ditugaskan, mungkin tidak sebaik yang saya harapkan. Namun saya ingin tekankan bahawa saya adalah anak melayu yang jati, oleh bertutur dalam bahasa Melayu.

    “Saya juga mempunyai komitmen yang tinggi untuk memperjuangkan hak-hak dan isu-isu rakyat di parlimen, bukan hanya untuk masyarakat Melayu, tapi juga untuk warga Singapura secara am,” tegas Encik Sidek.

    Calon kali pertama itu turut membidas dakwaan PAP bahawa parti-parti pembangkang di Singapura tidak berwibawa, tidak ada modal serta tidak mempunyai usulan alternatif atau baru.

    Beliau memberikan contoh dua usulan alternatif yang dilakarkan oleh partinya bagi menangani jurang pendapatan yang semakin luas.

    Salah satunya ialah penetapan gaji minima bagi para pekerja.

    “Penetapan gaji minima akan memastikan bahawa nilai setiap pekerjaan yang dilakukan oleh warga Singapura akan dapat menyara keperluan kehidupan mereka seharian. Saudara saudari, bayangkan bagaimana ini boleh menolong ibu atau bapa tunggal mengimbangi masa kerja dengan masa yang diluangkan bersama keluarga mereka,” jelas Encik Sidek.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Jufrie Mahmood: Damansuri Abas Dan Sidek Mallek Antara Calon Melayu Terbaik Yang Dikemukakan SDP

    Jufrie Mahmood: Damansuri Abas Dan Sidek Mallek Antara Calon Melayu Terbaik Yang Dikemukakan SDP

    Kedua dua calon Melayu SDP, Sidek Mallek dan Damanhuri Abas adalah antara yg terbaik yg pernah dikemukakan oleh pembangkang.
    Masyarakat kita memang mempunyai ramai cerdik pandai tapi mereka rata-rata lebih suka bersendirian dgn keluarga ataupun berjuang dlm persatuan-persatuan bukan bersifat politik.

    Yang masuk politik biasanya ambil jalan yg lebih mudah dan ‘selamat’, dapat ganjaran yg lumayan. Mereka sertai PAP tanpa benar-benar bertekad menyelesaikan masalah sebenar masyarakat yg telah lama tertunggak – 5 dekad terlalu lama untuk kita menunggu.

    Mereka seolah acuh tak acuh. Lebih teruk lagi jika mereka bersifat seperti melukut di tepi gantang. Soal diskriminasi masih berleluasa walaupun mereka cuba menafikannya. Soal seperti pemakaian tudung, misalnya, dianggap seperti menangani serangan perganasan atau terrorisma. Mereka biarkan diri mereka ditekan dan diperbodohkan oleh tuan-tuan besar mereka. Sungguh tak masuk akal.

    Lebih tak masuk akal lagi, masih ada saja Melayu cerdik pandai yg cenderung menyertai PAP. Sedih sekali kerana mereka tak dapat menggambarkan di benak mereka bahawa jika baik kedudukan masyarakat Melayu maka baiklah juga kedudukan masyarakat keseluruhannya. Negara kita akan lebih makmur dan sempurna.

    Itulah pendekatan kita dlm SDP. Sila gembling masyarakat kita supaya memberikan sokongan padu kpd calon-calon kami. Kami berpadu tenaga sebagai satu pasukan. Kita usaha sambil berdoa. Doakanlah kejayaan kami. Syukran.

     

    Source: Mohamed Jufrie Mahmood

  • Calvin Cheng: Remember Chiam See Tong, Do Not Vote For Backstabber Chee Soon Juan

    Calvin Cheng: Remember Chiam See Tong, Do Not Vote For Backstabber Chee Soon Juan

    Mr. Chiam See Tong has retired from electoral politics.

    Mr. Chiam is a man respected even by his political rivals. He is a gentleman politician, who not only was never sued by the PAP, but even successfully sued PAP’s ministers.

    Mr. Chiam had it very tough from Mr. Lee Kuan Yew but also won his respect; Mr. Lee said that Mr. Chiam was a good MP.

    The respect was mutual and Mr. Chiam was given a special place during Mr. Lee’s funeral, even though he was an opposition leader.

    In the end, it wasn’t the PAP who hurt Mr. Chiam the most.

    It was his former protege Chee Soon Juan who broke his heart and robbed Mr. Chiam of the party SDP that he founded.

    Mr. Chiam was the one who groomed Chee, helped him and supported him. Yet Chee back-stabbed him and destroyed his mentor and benefactor.

    Nothing is more despicable.

    Younger voters at Holland-Bukit Timah GRC must take note. They will not remember but should be aware.

    Do you want a despicable man like Chee Soon Juan to be your MP?

    Remember Mr. Chiam See Tong when you cast your vote.

     

    Source: Calvin Cheng

  • Chee Soon Juan: We’ll Run Constructive And Positive Campaign

    Chee Soon Juan: We’ll Run Constructive And Positive Campaign

    The flags and red balloons are ready. An army of tiny teddy bears, declaring “I Love SDP” on their T-shirts, is raring to go.

    The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) plans to run a “constructive” and “positive” campaign in this general election, says its secretary-general Chee Soon Juan.

    “We are not going to call names. We are not going to say PAP is bad, opposition is good,” he told The Straits Times in an exclusive interview. “We want to see change and you will see that from us. We’re going to be constructive, we’re going to be positive.”

    The SDP will champion a series of alternative plans on issues like housing, retirement savings and healthcare that it had laid out systematically in the run-up to the elections.

    “We want to appeal to (Singaporeans) that it is important to have not just an opposition – because you can have opposition there all the time throwing stones, being obstructive and so on – but having a competent opposition, a constructive opposition, a compassionate opposition,” he said, in reference to his party’s motto.

    This year will be the first time that Dr Chee is taking part in well over a decade. He was disqualified from the 2006 and 2011 general elections, on account of his bankruptcy after being sued for defamation by former prime ministers Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong.

    In 2012, his bankruptcy status was annulled after both men agreed to his offer of $30,000 as settlement.

    “What’s past is the past,” he said. “What’s important is our country’s future. I don’t hold grudges against the PAP,” he said.

    The 53-year-old former psychology lecturer, who has been with the party since 1992, has spent his years on the political backbench fine-tuning the party’s campaign operations. He declared: “Of all the elections I have been in, this is the one that we’ve been most prepared.”

    SDP launched its election campaign in January and followed that up the following month by presenting a paper entitled “A New Economic Vision” to reduce income inequality and increase innovation.

    One of the paper’s recommendations is to let retirees who want to receive their Central Provident Fund savings in instalments to opt into that arrangement, rather than for it to be mandatory as it is now.

    Another is to implement a minimum wage starting from $7 an hour, and then setting up a wage commission that would review the sum periodically.

    To lower the cost of housing, it proposes removing land cost from prices of Housing Board flats under a scheme which would bar these flats from being resold on the open market.

    The party is fielding 11 candidates this year, in Holland-Bukit Timah and Marsiling-Yew Tee Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs), as well as Bukit Panjang, Bukit Batok and Yuhua Single-Member Constituencies (SMCs).

    In the 2011 polls, it contested in Sembawang and Holland-Bukit Timah GRCs, as well as Bukit Panjang and Yuhua, winning 36.8 per cent of votes across all the wards.

    SDP caught public attention in 2011 by fielding investment adviser and former senior civil servant Tan Jee Say as well as retired army colonel Ang Yong Guan. Both have since left to start the Singaporeans First party.

    This time round, one of the SDP’s most high-profile candidates is Dr Paul Tambyah, a full professor at the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com