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SINGAPORE – A fundraiser for cardboard collectors to be held on Saturday (Dec 14) has been cancelled, said its organisers on Friday evening.
The five-hour event was to have involved at least four opposition parties, said non-profit group Happy People Helping People in a Facebook post.
The reason for the cancellation is that “the police did not want us to do this without a permit”, the group added.
Earlier on Friday, the police had said the event would require a permit as its organisers had politicised a social cause.
It pointed out in its statement that the event – titled A Mile In Their Shoes – ‘Leaders of Singapore’ Fundraiser Special – had been assessed to be a public assembly and, hence, would need a permit under the Public Order Act.
This is because “the event goes beyond simply helping cardboard collectors, and appears to be politicising a social cause”, it added.
The group had said in a Facebook post on Thursday that representatives from four political parties would take part in the fundraiser: the Singapore Democratic Party, Progress Singapore Party, Reform Party and the People’s Power Party.
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