[CONSOLIDATED] Singapore General Election 2025 Discussion Thread

[klim668]

Victor join pinky grc liao?

 

[whatheheck]

Lye ah Lye... u huat liao lah

 

[Philipkee]

Anyhow one….

(8) When, after the counting of votes (including any recount conducted under section 49B) is completed, an equality of votes is found to exist between any candidates or groups of candidates, and the addition of a vote would entitle any of the candidates or groups of candidates to be declared elected, the determination of the candidate or group of candidates to whom the one additional vote is deemed to have been given must be made by lot in the presence of the Returning Officer in such manner as the Returning Officer may determine.
https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/PEA1954?ProvIds=P13-#pr47C-

this one lagi better

 

[toolbox03]

what so special abt Victory Lye that they will bring him into parliament under SM Lee

Good at dancing

 

[sango65]

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

at first I thought Ms Goh and Ms Cassandra are long-lost sisters, faces look so similar.

 

[Eureka75]

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.

Quite sure this lady will be parachuted to be some minister of state after this election as Strait Times promote her a lot

 

[miko66]

Moral of the story ..

Tell your kids to learn parachuting

 

[Shion]

Every GE is about electing people with integrity and commitment: Chan Chun Sing​

https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...-with-integrity-and-commitment-chan-chun-sing

 

[mouserabbit]

all the same

Lim Tean might be lucky to escape a 3 corner fight if he contest in Jalan Besar (contest 3 corner by NSP which is now even more hated) or Tanjong Pagar

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

I wonder why she left(was seen as recently as Mar in KB), maybe told she won't be Fielded?

 

[ramlee]

Victor is useless. If they let him into amk grc through backdoor it’ll only make the whole thunder party lineup in amk grc is a total laughing stock despite they have pinky in there.

It doesn’t make pinky look good either.

But AMK grc all along is like that wat

Gan Thian Poh
Intan
Daryl David
Something Ling Ling
Son of Punggol

 

[Shion]

Quite sure this lady will be parachuted to be some minister of state after this election as Strait Times promote her a lot

nee soon grc...maybe take over shanmugam as anchor minister in the near future when he retires next time

 

[Shion]

民主党竞逐马西岭-油池 四人团队包括前进党前候选人和网媒管理员​

https://www.zaobao.com.sg/realtime/singapore/story20250413-6161241

新加坡民主党秘书长徐顺全（左三）宣布竞逐马西岭-油池集选区的竞选团队，左起为卓金炎、祖菲里、袁麒钧和阿里芬。 （李思邈摄）

 

[Eureka75]

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

Even if he can make a short speech in broken Teochew it doesn't matter because WP don't depend on Teochews' votes anymore and Dennis Tan is not very fluent in Teochew either

 

[Ethan_]

Victor Lye finally this time round liu lian bao jiak liao. Went to AMK GRC jalan jalan with SM Lee.

熬了这么多年, 终于熬出头了. And go to bao jiak one. Not chin chye anywhere.

 

[snapp]

卫生部前副常秘刘洁敏和赖添发，一同与李资政走访宏茂桥集选区。（图：黄秋怡）

https://www.8world.com/singapore/ge2025-pap-sm-lee-at-hougang-village-2759406

 

[Aidanic]

Lim Tean might be lucky to escape a 3 corner fight if he contest in Jalan Besar (contest 3 corner by NSP which is now even more hated) or Tanjong Pagar



I wonder why she left(was seen as recently as Mar in KB), maybe told she won't be Fielded?

Lim Tean will not be in 3 cornered fight in Tanjong Pagar. Highly doubt NSP will contest Jalan Besar.
Three way between NSP, PAR and PAP in Jalan Besar will be entertaining. Maybe NSP and PAR both lose deposit

 

[Shion]

GE2025: RDU introduces potential candidates for Nee Soon GRC​

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/rdu-introduces-potential-candidates-for-nee-soon-grc

(From left) Dr Syed Alwi Ahmad, Ms Sharon Lin and Mr Pang Heng Chuan were introduced as RDU’s team leads for the Nee Soon five-member GRC on April 13.ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG

 

[Shion]

陈振声：没有选区是包赢 反对党选区选民不应认为有责任确保国会有反对党​

https://www.zaobao.com.sg/realtime/singapore/story20250413-6161315

 

[Damienic]

I just want to put it down here, PAP please be ready to lose alot of Malay Muslim votes. Your Calvin case no closure yet.

Even with Lawrence Wong stepping in and reprimanded Mr CC?

 

[Aidanic]

Unless SDP contests Holland-Bukit Timah GRC or Bukit Gombak SMC, this should be the whole list

SDP Candidates
Dr Chee Soon Juan	Sembawang West SMC
Dr Paul Tambyah	Bukit Panjang SMC
Dr James Gomez	Sembawang GRC
Surayah Akbar	Sembawang GRC
Bryan Lim	Sembawang GRC
Damanhuri Abas	Sembawang GRC
Alfred Tan	Sembawang GRC
Ariffin Sha	Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC
Gigene Wong	Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC
Alec Tok	Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC
Jufri Salim	Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC