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  1. How many of them will eventually vote for them? Talking about talk is cheap and actions always speak louder than words.
  2. The stuff and argument plus retort raised here are great and guaranteed to make many supporters of the incumbent tongue tied. Although not always friendly, the points of contention brought up are genuine and thought provoking. It's a Gold mine ............
  3. Alec Tok- Reform Party http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnxL3Qdx0Hc
  4. I received a flyer from an opposition party placed on my main gate. Does that mean that the party will be contesting in my consituency?
  5. I received a flyer from an opposition party placed on my main gate. Does that mean that the party will be contesting in my consituency?
  6. I received a flyer from an opposition party placed on my main gate. Does that mean that the party will be contesting in my consituency?
  7. From Channel News Asia: All 27 constituencies will be contested, meaning the ruling party will not be returning to power on nomination day? We will have to wait & see.... http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin...1114574/1/.html Singapore GE: Opposition parties to contest all seats By S Ramesh/Evelyn Choo | Posted: 05 March 2011 1847 hrs SINGAPORE: Singapore's major opposition parties have come to an agreement to contest all 27 constituencies in the next General Election (GE), which is due before February 2012. At Saturday's meeting, they also agreed to avoid three-cornered fights in Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs), meaning most of the GRCs are likely to see a straight fight. However, in the case of the 12 Single-Member Constituencies (SMCs), the party leaders said discussions are ongoing. If the opposition parties keep to their declaration, the next GE is likely to see a situation where the PAP will not be returned to power on Nomination Day. Going into the details of where they stand to contest, Workers' Party (WP) chairman Sylvia Lim said her party will be in the Aljunied and East Coast GRCs. She said the WP is also interested in the newly-carved out Moulmein-Kallang GRC as well as Nee Soon GRC. As for the SMCs, she said her party is keen on five. These are Hougang, Joo Chiat, Punggol East, Sengkang West and Whampoa. When asked if the WP will contest the Ang Mo Kio GRC, Ms Lim said the party will not be doing so as it has to balance its resources according to its strategy. But Channel NewsAsia understands that other parties may decide to take on Ang Mo Kio GRC. The Reform Party's Mr Kenneth Jeyaretnam said his party will be contesting in the West Coast and Chua Chu Kang GRCs and also the single seats of Radin Mas, Pioneer and Hong Kah North. Meanwhile the Democratic Progressive Party's Seow Khee Leng said it will take on the Tanjong Pagar and Marine Parade GRCs. The National Solidarity Party intends to contest Tampines and Jurong GRCs. As for the Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA), it plans to contest the Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC and also the single-MP seats of Punggol East and Radin Mas. Sengkang West is also under consideration, it said. Potong Pasir's MP, Mr Chiam See Tong, said he wants to contest Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC and his Singapore People's Party (SPP) also wants to run in Potong Pasir and Hong Kah North single-member constituencies. The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) meanwhile said it would go for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC and the Bukit Panjang single-member ward. Saturday's meeting was the opposition parties' second in a week and the last to decide on the seat allocation for the coming General Election. However some of the individual parties will continue to meet on a one-on-one basis to come to a bilateral agreement, especially for the single-member constituencies, to avoid three-cornered fights. Independent candidate Andrew Kuan, who is eyeing the Joo Chiat seat, was also at Saturday's meeting. But he left the venue when organisers told him the discussion was not for independent candidates but opposition parties. - CNA/ir
  8. check out his other speeches clips... entertaining...
  9. I think this is just an empty threat to prevent MIW from shuffling unpopular ministers to walkover districts
  10. Hope to see more of such opposition new blood around. Gerald Giam: Why i joined the opposition? The 33-year-old former Foreign Service Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is one of 13 council members elected to the Central Executive Committee of the WP. Admire his courage. Do you think he can make it? Come to my ward . Regards,
  11. 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?
  12. Jan 20, 2010 Ex-scholars join Reform By Kor Kian Beng Mr Tony Tan Lay Thiam and his wife, Ms Hazel Poa, both 39, are former government scholarship holders who have become members of the opposition Reform Party. They currently run a chain of tuition centres. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE A FORMER officer in the Administrative Service, the top echelon of Singapore's Civil Service, has become a member of the opposition Reform Party. She is Ms Hazel Poa, 39, who worked for four years in the service in the 1990s. Her last-held post was that of an assistant director in the Finance Ministry. Possibly the first former Administrative Service officer to have joined the opposition in recent years, Ms Poa became a member of the Reform Party last month, eight months after her husband, Mr Tony Tan Lay Thiam. The couple, both of whom turn 40 this year, were government scholarship holders who went to Cambridge University in England, where they both obtained first-class honours degrees. She studied mathematics on a Public Service Commission scholarship, while he studied engineering on a Singapore Armed Forces Merit scholarship. They now run a chain of 10 tuition centres called SmartLab. Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Tim
  13. 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
  14. WP candidate Opposition party leader Yaw Shin Leong draws online flak for revelation in his blog for voting PAP in 2006 GE. Do you think what he did is alright? I don't think he did anything wrong. he is just exercising his right as a citizen to vote as he chooses. This is a non-political poll. No PAP or WP bashing. Keep your comments to agree or disagree only pls.
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