[CONSOLIDATED] Singapore General Election 2025 Discussion Thread

[steven jialat]

can he speak teochew

He said in his interview he is Hokkien and has been learning teochew since February

 

[Sumimasen]

One DD in there olreadi ish a laughing stock

 

[yperic]

GE2025: PM Wong introduces 8 new ‘Team PAP’ faces in 2-min video​

New faces.

Eight new faces, likely part of the People's Action Party's (PAP) General Election 2025 (GE2025) slate, have been spotlighted by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong.

In an Apr. 12 video posted on social media, the eight individuals were shown in various parts of Singapore, from hawker centres to basketball courts.

They are:

• Goh Hanyan, 39, former director at Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI)
• Shawn Loh, 38, former director at Ministry of Finance (MOF)
• Cassandra Lee, 30s, legal counsel
• Hamid Razak, 39, orthopaedic surgeon
• Diana Pang, 51, business development director
• Goh Pei Ming, 42, former chief of staff at Singapore Armed Forces (SAF)
• Jasmin Lau, 42, former deputy secretary at Ministry of Health (MOH)
• Ng Shi Xuan, 35, battery company director

All eight have been spotted in recent weeks on walkabouts and community events with PAP MPs.

However, it was not mentioned in the video which constituencies the new faces will be standing in.

30 new faces​

Earlier in the day, PM Wong announced that the PAP has finalised its line-up of candidates for GE2025.

Of the lot, over 30 are new faces — the largest slate of new faces in recent history, he said.

He added while the PAP currently has an excellent team of MPs, he needed to "renew and refresh" the team to better serve Singaporeans.

In the previous GE2020, the PAP introduced a slightly smaller slate of 27 candidates.

Top image from Lawrence Wong/Facebook

 

[waiken]

interestingly, less ppl hoot GMS/PPP and LT/PAR which i deem as even more subpar...

looks like NSP really can kiss their deposits goodbye...

all the same

 

[toolbox03]

Daryl David still can't solve the hougang resident knocking problem.

vote for them for what leh?

He should go back to hosting pyramid game

 

[Vinda99]

wai use red for his name

will sway one

 

[waiken]

Wah, so many people call them PAP mole and vote spilter

lolz tht small 3 still on tis game ah?

 

[nasilemak100]

welcome to the

 

[jeffrey745]

GE2025: News site founder Ariffin Sha, former PSP candidate Gigene Wong spotted in Marsiling-Yew Tee​

https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...date-gigene-wong-spotted-in-marsiling-yew-tee

Mr Ariffin Iskandar Sha Ali Akbar (left) and Ms Gigene Wong before their walkabout near Blk 19 Marsiling Lane on April 13.ST PHOTOS: KELVIN CHNG

I was jus wondering what happened to Gigene wong from PSP who contested in HKN last GE

 

[fandango]

Why change candidates?

 

[Vinda99]

Thanks Victor Lye...

AMK residents dun wan ppl giving out awards at wakes for photo ops

thanks for making it easy to vote against PAP

 

[mata_hippo]

He said in his interview he is Hokkien and has been learning teochew since February

so coincidental learn only since Feb this year?

 

[focus1974]

U blind?! This face can pick out anywhere in the streets.
Where is sun xueling calibre? No pretty face how to vote..
Pap is behind times.
Always the same losers ugly people.
N no giveaway!

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Don't judge.
hehe

 

[Quala98]

can he speak teochew

lesser of a concern now since there are multiple new blocks there

the old teochews probably moved or passed away already

 

[focus1974]

Study hard get a scholarship join Saf or government sector... Cfm huat

yup!
But even if you just degree and join civil service. also will huat as a permanent staff.
their salary is good enough to afford condo and no need fight with foreigners for jobs.

 

[Atilas]

Camping for abalone porridge.

 

[yperic]

GE2025: Parents’ dedication to helping others inspired PAP new face Goh Hanyan to join politics​

Ms Goh Hanyan said her parents’ example meant that service “for Singapore and Singaporeans has always been very core to what I wanted to do”.ST PHOTO: SHINTARO TAY

SINGAPORE – Growing up, Ms Goh Hanyan would often wonder where her father was.

Mr Goh started volunteering in Ang Mo Kio GRC before his daughter was born – he has kept at it for more than 40 years – and as she grew older, Ms Goh came to understand his impact on the community.

People would go up to her father and thank him for helping them with their problems, and she saw how gratified he would become. “Those were the moments that really stuck with me over the years,” she said.

Her mother, a secondary school mathematics teacher, marked schoolwork late into the night. This was because she spent the earlier part of the evening trying to find out why her students with more complicated backgrounds had missed school that day.

“I saw how my parents kind of went beyond themselves to care for others, and that truly inspired me to also go down a path of service for myself,” said Ms Goh, 39.

Until early April, Ms Goh had been a senior civil servant overseeing Singapore’s Smart Nation and artificial intelligence (AI) policies. She left the service on April 3, and is a potential candidate for the PAP at the upcoming general election.

Speaking to The Straits Times at a coffee shop in Nee Soon Central on April 11, the only child said her parents’ example meant that service “for Singapore and Singaporeans has always been very core to what I wanted to do”.

Fresh off getting her master’s degree in engineering management at Columbia University in 2009, Ms Goh started her career with the Economic Development Board (EDB).

After a three-year stint running EDB’s Washington office, she returned to Singapore in 2016, and started being involved in grassroots volunteering two years later.

She went on to work on the economy and sustainability under the Prime Minister’s Office in its strategy group, and in 2023, joined the Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI).

At MDDI, Ms Goh served as a director in the Smart Nation Strategy Office and the national AI group for policy and strategy. There, she was involved in shaping Singapore’s refreshed Smart Nation plan, known as Smart Nation 2.0, as well as the coordination and implementation of the Republic’s refreshed National Artificial Intelligence Strategy.

Ms Goh said her grassroots work included helping with the Breakfast with Love programme in Jalan Besar GRC’s Kampong Glam division. The monthly event brings the area’s elderly residents together for exercise, conversation, entertainment programmes, and – of course – breakfast.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Ms Goh joined a group of volunteers delivering groceries to vulnerable seniors.

Then came the call to join politics. Without revealing when she was first asked, Ms Goh said a minister she had worked closely with raised politics as another capacity that she could contribute in.

“After being in public service for almost 16 years of my life, going into politics and doing the work that I’m hoping to have the privilege to do was a natural next step,” she said.

But it was a decision that required soul-searching as she was by then a mother to three young children – a two-year-old son and two daughters, aged four and six.



Ms Goh said her parents never pushed her in this direction, but were supportive when she became ready “to step forward in this manner”.

Her husband saw how much her past experiences in community work energised her and made her happy, and also gave her his blessing.

“As for my family, well, my three children, they are along for the ride,” she said. “They would understand in time to come.”

Since resigning from the civil service in early April, Ms Goh has spent the past week in Nee Soon, and said she was struck by the warmth that residents there have shown her.

This was down to the work of the area’s MP, Minister of State for Home Affairs and National Development Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim, and the rest of the Nee Soon GRC team, she said.



On April 11, Associate Professor Faishal announced that Prime Minister Lawrence Wong had asked him to join the PAP team in Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC for the coming election, and that he had accepted.

If elected, Ms Goh said, she hopes to use her professional experience to contribute on economic issues, including how Singapore can navigate global changes while creating jobs for young people.

She also hopes to draw on her own experience to represent the needs of both young families and caregivers.

“As a mother of three young children and with two ageing parents, I hope to be able to represent the views and the interests of families and caregivers of the young and the old,” she said.

 

[Aidanic]

GE2025: PAP to field 4 newcomers in 5-member Aljunied GRC​

SINGAPORE: Four out of five members of the ruling People’s Action Party’s (PAP) slate in Aljunied Group Representation Constituency (GRC) for the next general election, will be newcomers contesting for the first time.

The ruling party unveiled its slate for the opposition-held ward on Sunday (Apr 13), featuring an almost completely new line-up from its 2020 team.

Of the quintet, only Serangoon branch chair Chan Hui Yuh, 48, stood in the last contest.

The others are: unionist Jagathishwaran Rajo, 37; managing director of urban planning consultancy Daniel Liu, 40; company director Adrian Ang, 41; and dental surgeon Faisal Abdul Aziz, 37.

Ms Chan said they will focus on addressing seniors’ issues, which will then have a trickle-on impact on the wellbeing of their families and the wider community.

She then said it has been 14 years since the Aljunied GRC residents have had a PAP voice in parliament and “it’s time” for change.

Also at Sunday’s launch was Education Minister Chan Chun Sing and former Cabinet minister Lim Boon Heng, who was the former party chairman and advises the PAP Aljunied team.

Mr Chan, who is the PAP's assistant secretary-general, introduced the Aljunied slate. He said the party's presence in opposition-held wards is not to be opposition there, but to be a proposition of policies.

He added that the election is about voting in people who can take care of residents locally, govern nationally, and also represent Singapore well globally.

The boundaries of Aljunied GRC were redrawn in the latest electoral map review, the first time it was altered since 2011, when it became the first GRC to be won by the opposition.

Three polling districts in Aljunied GRC, which comprises almost 4,000 voters, will be moved to Tampines GRC for the next election.

The last contest in 2020 saw the incumbent Workers' Party (WP) secure 59.95 per cent of the votes against the PAP there, the highest margin to date by which the WP has won a GRC.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ge2025-pap-aljunied-grc-wp-pritam-singh-new-faces-5062226
for full article

 

[Heriophant]

GE2025: News site founder Ariffin Sha, former PSP candidate Gigene Wong spotted in Marsiling-Yew Tee​

https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...date-gigene-wong-spotted-in-marsiling-yew-tee

Mr Ariffin Iskandar Sha Ali Akbar (left) and Ms Gigene Wong before their walkabout near Blk 19 Marsiling Lane on April 13.ST PHOTOS: KELVIN CHNG

Wow Gigene switched parties to SDP ehh.. I thgt I saw her last few months in PSP top

 

[orpisia]

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