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SINGAPORE – The proposed opposition group, which has yet to register its alliance, is hoping Dr Tan Cheng Bock’s Progress Singapore Party (PSP) will split the People’s Action Party vote in the next election which is due by April 2021.
Speaking to the media on Sunday (Jan 19), Mr Tan Jee Say, who leads the Singaporeans First party (SingFirst), described Dr Tan’s role as “just like (how) Mahathir split the Malay vote in Malaysia”.
In the 2018 general election in Malaysia, Malay voters were split three ways between the Umno-led Barisan Nasional, Parti Islam SeMalaysia and the Pakatan Harapan coalition led by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Mr Tan said: “We hope that Dr Tan will not split the opposition vote, and will just split the PAP vote, because… that is his value-add (for the opposition).
“The opposition vote is already there, 30 to 40 per cent, with or without Dr Tan and PSP.”
The Straits Times broke the news earlier this month that SingFirst, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), People’s Power Party (PPP) and Reform Party (RP) were planning to form a four-party alliance, reducing the crowded field of 11 opposition parties to eight.
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