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SINGAPORE – Workers’ Party (WP) MP Dennis Tan on Monday (Aug 31) charged that the People’s Action Party (PAP) had engaged in “petty and bad politics” during the general election, citing complaints made over the placement of election posters in his Hougang ward.
Referring to President Halimah Yacob’s address on evolving politics, he said good politics has to entail mutual respect between members of the ruling party and other parties, whether in Parliament or in the constituencies.
He recounted how two complaints were made to the Elections Department (ELD) during the recent general election campaign over posters his party put up that were said to be below the minimum required height.
A resident subsequently informed him that she had seen PAP representatives pulling his posters lower than they had originally been.
On a separate occasion, the PAP team also planted party flags in front of his banners, blocking their contents, Mr Tan added.
These made him wonder if the PAP had “gone backwards in time” in the way it conducted its campaign in Hougang, he said.
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