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  1. Now i hear and see many voices and comments on yahoo all are pretty negative about PAP. SO when then we can cast our votes. All this hype they created still don't know when's the actual day for election. I think now alot people was angered by the some clowns threatening us, it should be a good time to cast our votes. I bet PAP won't want to start this election early and let those s--t that they stir up die down first before announcing when's the election. Summary of event not in any order: T.T durai Golden TAP= is peanuts Mas selamat= go to visit malaysia with singapore special passport. PM Goh speech at NUS = impartial he is PM not PAP. upgrading money belongs to the goverment funds. Flood in orchard road = Normal la its natural to have flood la just that now suay keep flooding YOG budget = over the amount limited nvm la its a honest mistake and we are rich la over abit wont die. lost over billion= normal again la we are rich we buy wrong shares at the wrong time only Salary of minister = you think easy to be minister? they choose 1 ok not us. not any tom dick harry can have that kind of pay and they claim they deserve it so they deserve dun question ok! 27years old girl= i don't know what to say. lets hope i can be mp is what she wanna say. anymore you all add Zzzzz Btw i always see those president charity or any charity host on TV. Their aim was 1.2m dollar then i was thinking the VIP they invited their salary are over millions... cant they FOLK OUT 100/200K just to wayang wayang saying that they fully support these organisation when they ask for charity!!!. President charity i see liao cannot tahan president pay is 4m tio bo. 4m/12 months = $333333per month. U DONATE YOURSELF 1 month salary also wont die right!! this money is to help those who needed but have you ever donate everytime when you are invited to these charity shows? Don't know la for me i see liao cannot tahan they rally other ppl to donate but when come to ownself i never see any action even u wayang wayang i also happy cause those people in need surely will benefit but to be frank i have never seen before any MP/PM donate big amount for the cause of charity. Earn so much also cant bring go, his 1 month salary can save alot people.
  2. ODC

    Election

    Would you vote for ahgongwolve if he was fielded in an SMF (single moderator forum)
  3. Since 2006, many changes have been made in the political scene round the world. We have Malaysia where the ruling party since independence has suffered severe losses to the opposition while in libya and egypt, once thought presidents for life have been overthrown (or at least in the process of being over thrown) by the general public (note, not a coup). So it is not impossible for something to happen in this election to the ruling party. What say you?
  4. Still being telecasted now... Good discussion. Opposition representatives seem to be better prepared than their English-speaking colleagues yesterday, especially the first and last speakers.
  5. An old blog about last election. Things don't change much! http://rockson.blogspot.com/search?updated...;max-results=50 Read posting for October 10, 2005
  6. GE is due, and we see a lot of discussions online about the good and bad of various parties. And of course, some of us have already made our choices. The thing is, i feel a majority of the population couldnt care less about politics. They simply vote based on status quo, as in they dont want to rock the boat, or simply get their info from local news media (??!!). They do not attend rallies, and dont bother to find out more about each party, the candidates, what does an overwhelming mandate means to us as a nation etc. I get the feeling the older generations do not know/feel times has changed. They like to stick to the norm, and still feel the ruling party has done a lot and they are good. I agree that they have done a good job in transforming singapore to what it is today. But past performance cannot be used as a gauge for the future. Nor can it be implied. From the obscene pay packages alone, it cast a lot of doubt on their real intentions. Are they mercenaries? As to what Slyvia Lim has pointed out in her speech on minister's pay, it makes me wonder. The older generations probably do not visit forums, read online about various views on local politics and have a very one sided view on what is really happening, based on hearsay, TV and papers especially. And with fact that GRC alone is not exactly a fair electoral move for the opposition, i think it will be really tough to have a change to the political climate in singapore. PAP is no doubt a party with good and powerful people who have proved their worth in their previous appointments, but i think public service is a totally different ballgame. Running a country is different from running a company for profits, nor running a division bounded by regiments and laws. We need people with heart. So all the talks here we have, all the info dug out... does it make a real difference? Cant help but i feel its futile... But i still hope my vote will count.
  7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw5hgssO5Iw...player_embedded This will be interesting....
  8. Colleagues in office talks about election today. Many wishful of a holiday. Coffeeshop uncles also talk about election when I went to ta-pao my dinner just now. My mum also told me election coming while having dinner with the TV news on. Seems like Singapore is very much intune to this coming election! What is the real reason for the much enthusiasm? Does citizen very eager to make their voices known? But which direction? I mean normally people who wants to oppose or highlight something will look forward to EOGM and elections. I dont understand why the hugh enthusiasms as most people will still vote the incumbent into power(My opinion). Or will this time be a different outcome?
  9. Saw on FB that the Election Boundary Report is coming out soon There will be 87 seats contested - 12 SMC n 15 GRC.... WOW!!!!!
  10. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin...1090380/1/.html Singapore's Electoral Boundaries Review Committee convened By S Ramesh | Posted: 30 October 2010 1715 hrs HANOI: Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee has been convened. Typically, the prime minister appoints the committee just before a General Election to review the electoral division boundaries and recommend changes. The committee examines the growth of the voter population from the last General Election and recommends the number of Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) and single-member constituencies (SMCs) and their boundaries. Speaking to the Singapore media on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Hanoi on Saturday, Mr Lee said he has issued the instruction to convene the committee and it is being chaired by the Secretary to the Cabinet, Tan Kee Yong. Prime Minister Lee's revelation comes hot on the heels of a speech made by Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong on Friday at a university forum that the political buzz will increase in Singapore as many Singaporeans believe that the General Election will be held later this year or early next year. Prime Minister Lee weighed in with this to say: "I don't think it is any surprise. Elections are due some time before February 2012, so if you haven't got the signal by now, something must be wrong with you." On when the report by the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee would be out, Mr Lee said Singaporeans would have to wait and see. The release of the report is seen as one of the clearest signals of a General Election around the corner. For the 2006 General Election, the report was released about seven weeks before Nomination Day. With changes to the Parliamentary Elections Act in Singapore to increase the number of SMCs from the current nine to 12, and to reduce the size of some of the GRCs, especially the ones with six MPs currently, the final report of the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee would be very much looked out for by current Members of Parliament and the opposition parties, some of whom have already been reserving the GRCs which they want to contest in. Prime Minister Lee also revealed that he expects to bring in quite a number of new candidates and several potential office holders to contest in the upcoming elections. He said: "I expect to bring in quite a number of new candidates and several potential office holders and they will strengthen my leadership team. "But I am not announcing elections today. But there will be time to introduce them and get to know them." On the latest Cabinet revamp announced by him on Wednesday, before he left for the Hanoi summit, Mr Lee said it is a reshuffle with the cards which the government presently has. He said: "It's a reshuffle with the cards which we presently have. For the ministers, as I said in my comment, it is a logical consequence or move which we set a couple of years ago when I appointed Lui Tuck Yew as Acting Minister and when I brought in Shanmugam as the Law Minister and Second Minister for Home Affairs. So gradually we are bringing them into positions and putting them in place. "(For the) Parliamentary Secretaries, (their promotions) is a reward for performance and contributions. They are all deserving and I think they will continue to work hard in the same portfolios they have been hitherto, because I haven't reshuffled them. Beyond that, we will wait till I bring in new cards, which means I bring in new candidates, which will be in the general election." Singapore's leaders have said that out of the next General Election, the country must produce Singapore's fourth Prime Minister and a core team of younger Ministers who will take over from the present team.
  11. SINGAPORE : The next general election is not due till February 2012, but Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo said it could be in the second quarter of this year. Mr Yeo, who is in Bangkok for the Civil Service Exchange Programme, was speaking at a dinner organised by the Singapore Club and the Singapore
  12. Just in. First published in the Government Gazette, Electronic Edition, on 3rd January 2011 at 5.00 pm. No. 31
  13. Sick of reading threads blasting the gov not that I am super pro gov but it's getting old reading the same of ranting. Let say the next general election see a radical change in the government ruling party and majority is won by oppositions. What will we expect to see? FT policies changes? CPF policies changes? Transport changes? Wage changes? Life style changes? Education system changes? Development changes? Censorship changes? Bills changes? anything Just like to hear from fellow MCFers on what they think the opposition can bring to the table and how it'll change our way of life in like 5-20years?
  14. Let's have a MCF pre-erection vote!
  15. By LEE U-WEN (SINGAPORE) There are many safeguards in place should the opposition manage to displace the People's Action Party at a future general election, said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew yesterday evening. He gave the assurance that Singapore's reserves would be protected, and that the country's top officials - such as those from the police and the army - could not be changed without first getting the President's consent. 'We've set in place a President with blocking powers, so any opposition that comes in will find that they cannot touch the reserves,' he said during a dialogue session at a gala dinner at the Shangri-La Hotel to mark the fifth anniversary of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. 'Otherwise, they promise the sky and spend the money and all our savings will go in five years,' he told his 800-strong audience that included key Cabinet ministers, senior civil servants, diplomats and academics. He noted how the President could count on his Council of Advisers, comprising experienced economists and businessmen, to advise him on what would be best for the country going forward. Mr Lee said that the system in Singapore allows any opposition the chance to displace the PAP government peacefully. 'If you can win an election, so be it. And at some time, some place, we will not be able to find a team that can equal an opposition team. And on that day, we deserve to be out. If we become corrupt, inefficient and can't deliver, we're out,' he said. 'We can't guarantee that each time we will produce a better team than the opposition. I don't see any problem at the next election, but maybe at the next one, and the opposition manages to get a good team. Then we're at risk.' What do you guys think?
  16. With the election called for 6th May, tonight sees the first ever live television debate between the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat party leaders. Will our brave leaders ever do the same?
  17. The million dollar Q. Actually just remember since the last election, how has your life been? better or worse. Gov can say all they about doing this, giving $$ etc. What u need to ask yourself has your life improved or become harder since last election?
  18. First, they have to do a frontpage feature of new citizens serving NS. Then, the jacking up of school fees for PRs and non-citizens to make it look like they're putting citizens ahead of others. Why... why so wayang..
  19. Taken from http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp...1001716/1/.html Posted: 30 August 2009 1934 hrs TOKYO: Japan's opposition Democratic Party won general elections on Sunday in a landslide, ousting the long-ruling conservative party, according to media exit polls just after voting ended. An exit poll by TV Asahi predicted the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) would take 315 seats in the 480-seat lower house, while Tokyo Broadcasting System forecast the centre-left opposition party would win 321 seats. Public broadcaster NHK predicted the DPJ would win between 298 and 329 seats, against a range of just 84 to 131 seats for the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Prime Minister Taro Aso. Nippon Television predicted a DPJ total of 324 seats against the LDP's 96. "It's a landslide win. It's a dramatic election," Hiroshi Hoshi, a veteran journalist with the Asahi Shimbun daily, told TV Asahi. The LDP – which has ruled Japan with only one 10-month break since 1955 – had 303 seats in the outgoing parliament to the DPJ's 112. Loud whoops of joy rang through a venue in Tokyo's Roppongi entertainment district where the DPJ was celebrating. "We have worked desperately to take the government reins and finally received the support of the majority of the people to make it certain now," senior DPJ official Yoshihiko Noda told NHK television. The results suggest the soft-spoken Hatoyama, 62, is on course to take over as prime minister at a time when the world's number two economy is just emerging from recession, but still struggling with record unemployment. Hatoyama, a US-trained engineering scholar and scion of an old political dynasty, campaigned on a promise of change and people-centred politics against the business-friendly LDP, headed by fellow political blueblood Aso. Recalling US President Barack Obama's election victory last year, Hatoyama asked voters in a final campaign speech on Saturday at a Tokyo railway station: "Why can't we do what the United States could do?" "I think we need a change now," agreed one voter, pensioner Toshihiro Nakamura, 68, after casting his ballot on Sunday at a Tokyo elementary school. "It's too long for a single party to dominate national politics." The DPJ already controlled the upper house with the support of smaller parties, including the Social Democrats, frustrating the LDP's agenda in the lower house and leading often to legislative deadlock. Now, the DPJ looks set to take the lower house as well with the numbers to push through legislation. In full-page advertisements published in major dailies on Sunday, the party confidently predicted: "Today, a government change." "A courageous decision by the people will open the door for a historic and major event," it said in another statement. The DPJ has promised better social welfare, which it says would help recession-hit families, boost domestic demand and raise the birth rate to reverse a projected decline of Japan's fast-greying population. In foreign policy, it has signalled a solid but less subservient partnership with traditional ally the United States and a desire to boost its regional ties, promoting a European Union-style Asian community and common currency. As premier, Hatoyama would be expected to attend a UN assembly in New York and a G20 summit in Pittsburgh in September and quickly seek talks with Obama, Chinese President Hu Jintao and other world leaders. The LDP is credited with guiding Japan through its "economic miracle", but is also blamed for the malaise that set in during the 1990s and for free-market policies seen by many to have widened social inequality. Aso had portrayed the LDP as the safe choice in guarding Japan's security and prosperity, and pointed to stimulus measures that helped to end the recession. But in the end, the changing political tide swamped Aso's party. The prime minister, 68, had dismayed voters with a series of gaffes and policy turnarounds as divisions widened within his party. - AFP/so
  20. 1- Elections Department to update register of eligible voters SINGAPORE : Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has asked the Elections Department to revise the registers of electors by April 30. The registers will contain the names of all Singapore citizens who are eligible to vote, as of February 1 this year. The Elections Department said this is a routine update, as the law requires the registers to be revised within three years of a general election. As the last general election was held on 6 May 2006, the registers must be updated by May 5. The Elections Department will release more details on the revision exercise on March 2. - CNA 2- Election Boundaries Re-Drawn. Aljunied GRC is one of the many that kena. Election coming? The whole list is here: http://www.elections.gov.sg/gazette/Bounda...20districts.pdf
  21. Mediacorp was caught secretly preparing for election this year. This was highlighted in Yawning Bread blog showing mediacorp website with the page title showing "General Elections 2009", while the content still remains on 2006 election. This is obvious that Mediacorp is preparing the General Election website for this year. Now question is how do Mediacorp knows about this? If the ruling party has already decided that election will be this year, then why feign ignorance and not publicly announced it to Singaporeans? http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2009/yax-987.htm If really got erection, times ahead must be very hard!
  22. I know US is half a world away..but then, as the saying goes, when US sneezes, the world gets the flu.. Obama and McCain..We shall know next week who will win.. But the interesting part is, how will the 2 of them affect Singapore and the rest of the world as a whole? as of now, Obama seems to be leading in every major poll.. your views please..
  23. July 22, 2008 JBJ challenges Govt to call by-election in late MP's ward By Sue-ann Chia VETERAN opposition politician J.B. Jeyaretnam yesterday challenged the People's Action Party Government to defend the Singapore system by calling a by-election to fill the seat made vacant by the late MP Ong Chit Chung. Dr Ong, who died last Monday at age 59, was an MP for Bukit Batok, part of the six-seater Jurong GRC. Referring to recent criticisms of Singapore's style of governance, and government rebuttals of those criticisms which highlighted what Singapore's admirers said, Mr Jeyaretnam said: 'It is not enough to sing praises. You should show yourself ready to defend the system and its merits against attacks on the system.' And the best way to do so, he argued, is to submit to the ultimate judges - the electorate. The 82-year-old, who had just formed the Reform Party, made his argument in an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. 'Do not, I urge you, shelter behind the provisions of the law that seemingly do not require you to call for a by-election,' he said. 'All these laws were designed and passed by those who...stand to benefit under the scheme. The laws have only one object - to keep the minority that you represent in power.' Mr Lim Boon Heng, the leading minister in Jurong GRC as well as chairman of the People's Action Party, told The Straits Times last week that there were no plans for a by-election as this is not required by law. The remaining five MPs in the GRC will share the responsibilities for Dr Ong's ward, he said. In his letter yesterday, Mr Jeyaretnam queried Mr Lim's reading of the law, saying he is not sure the law does not require a by-election to be held. He said there was no need to call a by-election for the whole GRC, but just for the ward without an MP now. 'If you do not call for a by-election, you will be seen as someone who is afraid to defend your beliefs and only interested in keeping yourself in power regardless of what the voters feel,' he said.
  24. The worst time for economy has proven to be a bed of rose for the RP. becos the atypical Kiasi Singapore r so worried abt losing their jobs, they wun bet on a OP member to help them, not when they know the RP is always screwing abt anyway. wat cud the voters do abt it? the rumor mongering has happened "ruins in 5 years time"... walkabouts has happened, promises made to a few precincts now the talkabouts.. disgruntlements. http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_263608.html amidst bad news pouring in abt Charities, Flops fr throwing $$ into fire, etc heading for snap election would give them enuff time to tie over more horrors to come rather than waiting for more bad news to befall the next election. Are we in for a snap election? perhaps...
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