[CONSOLIDATED] Singapore General Election 2025 Discussion Thread

[hammerstrike]

Bukit Gombak smc has no challenger now

knn easy walk over for Mayor Low

Sad sia this smc got storied history

Under SDP from 1991-1997

 

[yperic]

Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat shares a lesson he learn on policy execution from his early days in the Singapore Police Force.

It was one particular day where he had a "humbling experience" when he did in his words, "such a bad job" directing traffic that he learnt something important.

"Serving our citizens starts with the frontline officer ... Whatever our grand plans, execution happens at the frontline, at the interface with our citizens," he said in a speech at the annual Administrative Service dinner on Tuesday (Apr 15).

 

[surfman]

Sad sia this smc got storied history

Under SDP from 1991-1997

Sdp know that all the old resident there remember what happen when they vote sdp mp and will never vote sdp again
That is why csj choose to run to Sembawang west rather than Bukit Gombak which is next to Bukit Batok

 

[Alphidius]

Honestly, all these older demographics in rallies probably RIP liao..
Besides is there really much unhappiness on the ground now? Because I certainly don't sense any lol

Actually during covid period, I couldn't sense any unhappiness on the ground either yet WP won another GRC...

 

[yperic]

GE2025: PAP new face Kawal Pal Singh rules himself out of running for election​

Lawyer Kawal Pal Singh was spotted in Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC with Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat on April 13.ST PHOTO: HESTER TAN

SINGAPORE - Lawyer Kawal Pal Singh has ruled himself out of running in the upcoming general election, two days after he was spotted in Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC with Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat.

In a Facebook post on April 15, the 41-year-old said that as a long-time PAP member, his visit to Toa Payoh on April 13 had sparked speculation about his potential candidacy in the upcoming general election. He added that he received many messages of support and encouragement after.

“As for the speculation surrounding my involvement in the coming GE, I am here to share that after discussing with my family and my uncle (former PAP MP) Inderjit Singh, I will not be involved in the GE as a candidate,” he said.

“At this stage of my life, I want to focus on balancing my professional commitments with time for my young family. I will continue to support the PAP in other meaningful ways and remain committed to serving both the Sikh and wider Indian communities.”

Mr Singh, who is managing partner at law firm Tito Isaac & Co, was previously a PAP volunteer in Sengkang.

The Straits Times has contacted Mr Singh for comment.

On April 13, he was spotted speaking to residents alongside Mr Chee and executive director of charity CampusImpact Elysa Chen at Toa Payoh West Market and Food Centre.

Asked if the pair would be running in the 2025 General Election in Bishan-Toa Payoh, Mr Chee said this would be confirmed during Nomination Day.

Ms Chen was on April 15 announced as a PAP candidate in a video posted on Facebook by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong.

In his post, Mr Singh extended his support and best wishes to the PAP candidates standing in the May 3 election.

 

[yperic]

Wah this guy dropping bombshell after being introduced as a new candidate
https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...mVqHrY_E744Am_z2jQ_aem_7glXKHPAVAJj9HpvJy-UZQ

He last time not contesting he not sacre tio mark .

 

[Damienic]

He last time not contesting he not sacre tio mark .

He sounded like his uncle advised him against contesting in the elections

 

[yperic]

GE2025: PAP rolls out East Coast Plan website​

The East Coast Plan website - with its tagline East Side, Best Side - includes an interactive map of the area's highlights.

From left: PAP new faces Hazlina Abdul Halim and Goh Pei Ming, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Edwin Tong, previous Deputy Speaker of Parliament Jessica Tan and Senior Minister of State Tan Kiat How at the launch of the new East Coast website on Apr 15, 2025. (Photo: CNA/Lim Li Ting)

SINGAPORE: The People's Action Party (PAP) on Tuesday (Apr 15) launched a website with details of the East Coast Plan, including interactive maps showing improved facilities and ongoing works of community spaces within different areas in East Coast.

The website - titled East Side, Best Side - comprises five sections: the plan, the progress, the promise, the people and the pulse.

It illustrates what has been done for East Coast GRC residents from 2020 to 2025. This includes strengthening financial aid for lower-income families and expanding access to healthcare; encouraging urban farming and food sustainability; and programmes that promote digital and lifelong learning as well as intergenerational bonding.

It also showcases ongoing and newly finished infrastructure improvement via an interactive map for each area in the GRC: Bedok, Changi Simei, Fengshan, Kampong Chai Chee, Chai Chee, Siglap and Joo Chiat.

The website outlines eight pillars in the East Coast Plan for the next five years - to make East Coast a place to learn, care, eat, pray, conserve, play, shape the future, and a place for all.

Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat, anchor minister for the five-member East Coast Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in the previous General Election, was absent from the event.

He was at the annual Administrative Service dinner on Tuesday night.

The "East Coast Plan" catchphrase went viral after Mr Heng's Nomination Day gaffe at the 2020 General Election when he stumbled over his speech while introducing his plan for East Coast residents. He has since publicly embraced his slip-up.

From left: PAP new face Hazlina Abdul Halim, Senior Minister of State Tan Kiat How, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Edwin Tong, former Deputy Speaker of Parliament Jessica Tan and PAP new face Goh Pei Ming at the launch of the new East Coast website on Apr 15, 2025. (Photo: CNA/Lim Li Ting)

DPM HENG REMAINS PART OF EAST COAST​

Addressing questions about Mr Heng's absence on Tuesday evening, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Edwin Tong told reporters that Mr Heng was at another event.

"But DPM Heng remains part of the East Coast and he is currently serving as the grassroots advisor as well as the MP looking after (the) Bedok (ward)," Mr Tong said.

Mr Tong's current ward of Joo Chiat in Marine Parade GRC - as well as part of the Kembangan-Chai Chee ward - were shifted to East Coast GRC following the redrawing of electoral boundaries.

Asked whether he could now be the anchor minister in the PAP's East Coast slate for the coming election, he said: "I think DPM has made the point quite clear. We will be able to confirm it when our (secretary-general) clears the team.

"And as you know, there's a regular cadence of teams being announced starting a few days ago, and in due course, East Coast GRC will also be announced."

Singaporeans will head to the polls on May 3 for the country’s 14th General Election, after President Tharman Shanmugaratnam dissolved parliament on Tuesday. Nomination Day is on Apr 23.

Senior Minister of State Tan Kiat How speaking at a media preview for the new East Coast website on Apr 15, 2025. (Photo: CNA/Lim Li Ting)

Also present to launch the East Coast Plan website on Tuesday were Senior Minister of State Tan Kiat How, previous Deputy Speaker of Parliament Jessica Tan, as well as PAP new faces Hazlina Abdul Halim and Goh Pei Ming.

Mr Tan and Ms Tan were elected Members of Parliament (MPs) for East Coast GRC in the previous election.

Mdm Hazlina will be taking the place of Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Mohamad Maliki Osman - part of PAP's winning team for East Coast in 2020 - in the upcoming election.

Dr Maliki said last Saturday that he wouldn’t be contesting in East Coast GRC in the election, although he declined to say if he would be retiring from politics or redeployed to another constituency.

In the 2020 election, East Coast was a fiercely contested GRC between the PAP and Workers' Party. The PAP garnered 53.39 per cent of the votes, marking one of its narrowest victories in the General Election.

The PAP’s 2020 outcome in East Coast was a decline from the 60.73 per cent achieved in 2015.

Mr Tong on Tuesday pointed out that every election is "tough" and "we never take it for granted", in response to a question about his thoughts on possibly going up against WP at the coming election.

"We respect our opponents, whoever they might be. But we do want to emphasise the work that has been done and continue to endeavour to work hard to (help) our residents. That ultimately is key, and the most important aspect of a local MP's job," he said.

"Beyond that, there's also the consideration of the broader interest of Singapore, beyond East Coast. And the election is not just about the local MP, but also about the selection of the government, and the ability of the government to look after Singapore ... and Singaporeans in the long-term."

Mr Goh, the former Singapore Armed Forces Chief of Staff - Joint Staff, has been volunteering in Kampong Chai Chee since 2007, becoming chairman of its Community Club Management Committee in 2021 and vice-chairman of its Citizens’ Consultative Committee in 2019.

He told reporters that he was waiting for the slate and his deployment to be finalised, but was "making full use of every opportunity to better understand the ground" in the meantime.

"I may be familiar with Kampong Chai Chee and Bedok, since I grew up here, but there are other parts of East Coast GRC and there's a lot more that I need to learn. So I'm eagerly ... making my way around," he said.

Mdm Hazlina, a former broadcast journalist and head of a non-profit organisation, said that she has noticed during her walkabouts that "being able to have the space to build strong, resilient families" was important for East Coast residents.

"I think every community is really close in East Coast. Having that opportunity to continue genuine connections and shared aspirations appears to be top of the mind for East Coast residents," she said.

Source: CNA/gy(mi)

 

[Toonsy92]

Sad sia this smc got storied history

Under SDP from 1991-1997

Wait till younger generations gets to know the dark history of Cheng San GRC.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_San_Group_Representation_Constituency

 

[Medicated Oil]

GE2025: PAP new face Kawal Pal Singh rules himself out of running for election​

Lawyer Kawal Pal Singh was spotted in Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC with Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat on April 13.ST PHOTO: HESTER TAN

SINGAPORE - Lawyer Kawal Pal Singh has ruled himself out of running in the upcoming general election, two days after he was spotted in Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC with Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat.

In a Facebook post on April 15, the 41-year-old said that as a long-time PAP member, his visit to Toa Payoh on April 13 had sparked speculation about his potential candidacy in the upcoming general election. He added that he received many messages of support and encouragement after.

“As for the speculation surrounding my involvement in the coming GE, I am here to share that after discussing with my family and my uncle (former PAP MP) Inderjit Singh, I will not be involved in the GE as a candidate,” he said.

“At this stage of my life, I want to focus on balancing my professional commitments with time for my young family. I will continue to support the PAP in other meaningful ways and remain committed to serving both the Sikh and wider Indian communities.”

Mr Singh, who is managing partner at law firm Tito Isaac & Co, was previously a PAP volunteer in Sengkang.

The Straits Times has contacted Mr Singh for comment.

On April 13, he was spotted speaking to residents alongside Mr Chee and executive director of charity CampusImpact Elysa Chen at Toa Payoh West Market and Food Centre.

Asked if the pair would be running in the 2025 General Election in Bishan-Toa Payoh, Mr Chee said this would be confirmed during Nomination Day.

Ms Chen was on April 15 announced as a PAP candidate in a video posted on Facebook by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong.

In his post, Mr Singh extended his support and best wishes to the PAP candidates standing in the May 3 election.

The others on the waiting list

 

[Toonsy92]

On Polling Day, several former PAP ministers, including Goh Chok Tong, Tony Tan and Lee Hsien Loong were within the precinct of polling stations in Cheng San GRC, although they were not themselves candidates in the constituency. The Workers Party believed that this violated the Parliamentary Elections Act, as unauthorised personnel are prohibited from polling stations by election law to prevent undue influence and harassment on voters and staff.


WP lost in Cheng San GRC, obtaining 44,132 votes, which was 45.2% of the valid votes in the constituency of approximately 98,000 voters. Cheng San GRC ceased to exist in the next election and thus was redrawn into several neighbouring constituencies.

 

[yperic]

Look like must be his uncle Inderjit Singh
tell him something that make him last minute change his mind.

“As for the speculation surrounding my involvement in the coming GE, I am here to share that after discussing with my family and my uncle (former PAP MP) Inderjit Singh, I will not be involved in the GE as a candidate,” he said.

“At this stage of my life, I want to focus on balancing my professional commitments with time for my young family. I will continue to support the PAP in other meaningful ways and remain committed to serving both the Sikh and wider Indian communities.”

 

[Kunkka]

GE2025: PAP new face Kawal Pal Singh rules himself out of running for election​

Lawyer Kawal Pal Singh was spotted in Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC with Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat on April 13.ST PHOTO: HESTER TAN

SINGAPORE - Lawyer Kawal Pal Singh has ruled himself out of running in the upcoming general election, two days after he was spotted in Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC with Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat.

In a Facebook post on April 15, the 41-year-old said that as a long-time PAP member, his visit to Toa Payoh on April 13 had sparked speculation about his potential candidacy in the upcoming general election. He added that he received many messages of support and encouragement after.

“As for the speculation surrounding my involvement in the coming GE, I am here to share that after discussing with my family and my uncle (former PAP MP) Inderjit Singh, I will not be involved in the GE as a candidate,” he said.

“At this stage of my life, I want to focus on balancing my professional commitments with time for my young family. I will continue to support the PAP in other meaningful ways and remain committed to serving both the Sikh and wider Indian communities.”

Mr Singh, who is managing partner at law firm Tito Isaac & Co, was previously a PAP volunteer in Sengkang.

The Straits Times has contacted Mr Singh for comment.

On April 13, he was spotted speaking to residents alongside Mr Chee and executive director of charity CampusImpact Elysa Chen at Toa Payoh West Market and Food Centre.

Asked if the pair would be running in the 2025 General Election in Bishan-Toa Payoh, Mr Chee said this would be confirmed during Nomination Day.

Ms Chen was on April 15 announced as a PAP candidate in a video posted on Facebook by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong.

In his post, Mr Singh extended his support and best wishes to the PAP candidates standing in the May 3 election.

Must be the uncle

 

[hammerstrike]

Look like must be his uncle Inderjit Singh
tell him something that make him last minute change his mind.

“As for the speculation surrounding my involvement in the coming GE, I am here to share that after discussing with my family and my uncle (former PAP MP) Inderjit Singh, I will not be involved in the GE as a candidate,” he said.

“At this stage of my life, I want to focus on balancing my professional commitments with time for my young family. I will continue to support the PAP in other meaningful ways and remain committed to serving both the Sikh and wider Indian communities.”

Ya quite obvious. Read between the lines

 

[Tormented Soul]

Means Inderjit Singh knows something about the current PAP that we dont know?

 

[Damienic]

Means Inderjit Singh knows something about the current PAP that we dont know?

Inderjit Singh have spoken out against PAP before

 

[SimaYi_Zhongda]

It seems like cost of living is the top major concern to us people on the ground.
Parties contesting should take note of this and state how they can address the issue.
Incumbent should defend their stance on GST hike and how they'll help us with actual policies or regulations to back it up.

 

[EdenHazard]

It seems like cost of living is the top major concern to us people on the ground.
Parties contesting should take note of this and state how they can address the issue.
Incumbent should defend their stance on GST hike and how they'll help us with actual policies or regulations to back it up.

The top major concern is integrity! We can't have liars and dishonest people in parliament!

 

[havetheveryfun]

I think PAP/LHL now regret letting Tharman become President instead of promoting him to PM...

If Tharman become PM... I think pple will be more confident he can better navigate SG amidst the current tariff worries and economic outlook...

is tharman himself didnt want to be PM. he smart, thankless job and later have to kio PAP sai over the years. now he president just relac go around talking with leaders of other countries and collect $

 

[havetheveryfun]

Incumbent should defend their stance on GST hike and how they'll help us with actual policies or regulations to back it up.

they already tell u help u by giving u vouchers to alleviate the pressure