[GE2025] West Coast-Jurong West GRC

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If West Coast residents don’t vote TCB and Leong Mun Wai in, I really don’t know what to say
 
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eq2addict said:
so is this your first election ?
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https://www.todayonline.com/ge2015/list-rally-sites-released

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Back in GE 2015 jurong west stadium was for pioneer SMC too
 
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PSP team in West Coast-Jurong West GRC challenges PAP team led by Desmond Lee to debate​


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The opposition PSP team contesting West Coast-Jurong West GRC on April 23 challenged the incumbent PAP team led by Minister for National Development Desmond Lee to a debate on national policies.

This invitation to a debate was raised in speeches delivered by three party members – party chief Leong Mun Wai, first vice-chair Hazel Poa and party member Sumarleki Amjah – at the Nan Hua High School nomination centre, after the party’s candidacy in the GRC was confirmed.

“We would like to invite Minister Desmond Lee and his team to debate on policies. Let the voters decide who has better ideas,” said Mr Leong in his address to the crowd.

Later, at a separate media interview held at the Block 505 Jurong West Market & Food Centre, Mr Leong elaborated on why the party had issued this challenge.

“For a healthy election, we must debate policies, we don’t (just) criticise one another. There must be good policies and we think that we have put up a very strong manifesto,” he said.

Mr Leong added that he and Ms Poa, who are both NCMPs, have over the past five years suggested alternative policies in Parliament to improve the lives and livelihoods of Singaporeans.

“So we really wish that our opponent, Minister Desmond Lee and his team, could actually debate us on the policies and then let the voters decide who has better ideas,” Mr Leong said. “So that’s the reason why we have put forward that invitation to them.”

He added that the party is willing to accept the debate in any form and any topic.

On Nomination Day on April 23, the PSP’s A-team, which includes its top three leaders Dr Tan Cheng Bock, 84, Mr Leong, 65, and Ms Poa, 54, was confirmed as candidates contesting West Coast-Jurong West GRC. The other two PSP candidates are first-timers – head of packaged food and business development Sumarleki Amjah, 53, and in-house legal counsel Sani Ismail, 49.

The PSP team will be up against a PAP team led by Mr Lee, 48, who is the anchor minister for the GRC, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Finance and Education Shawn Huang, 42, and three-term MP Ang Wei Neng, 58. Rounding out the PAP’s slate are two first-time candidates – orthopaedic surgeon Hamid Razak, 39, and lawyer Cassandra Lee, 33.

In the 2020 General Election, PAP won the constituency in its previous form – West Coast GRC – with 51.68 per cent of the vote against a PSP team led by Dr Tan. It was the narrowest win for the ruling party in the 2020 election.

Ms Poa said that the role of an MP is primarily to debate policies in the Parliament. “That should be the primary consideration for voters on who they think will better represent them,” she said.

She added that the concerns residents have raised include the rising cost of living and rising housing prices.
 
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