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With all 93 seats being challenged in this year’s general election and physical rallies disallowed in view of the Covid-19 situation, you can tune in to e-rallies happening on social media platforms instead.
Here’s a list for today (June 30):
People’s Action Party (PAP)
Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC
Who: Lawrence Wong, Hany Soh, Zaqy Mohamad and Alex Yam
Time: 8pm
Where: Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC Facebook page
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SINGAPORE: The People’s Action Party’s (PAP) decision to field Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat to contest in East Coast GRC is a sign that it takes the Workers’ Party’s (WP) challenge in the constituency “very seriously”, said WP chief Pritam Singh.
Mr Singh was answering questions from reporters in Hougang, alongside WP’s candidate for Hougang SMC Dennis Tan, hours after Nomination Day papers were filed on Tuesday (Jun 30).
Pritam Singh of the Workers’ Party (WP) speaking to media during a doorstop after filing nomination papers at Deyi Secondary School, on Jun 30, 2020. (Photo: Jeremy Long)
“I think it’s an important signal the PAP are sending, that they take our challenge in East Coast very seriously. I’d say we take their challenge equally seriously and that’s why we’ve put a strong slate of candidates in each constituency,” he said.
Mr Heng, who was a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Tampines GRC, was included in the PAP team for East Coast GRC, which also comprises of Senior Minister of State Maliki Osman, Ms Cheryl Chan, Ms Jessica Tan and new face Mr Tan Kiat How, who is a former chief executive of the Infocomm Media Development Authority.
Heng Swee Keat, Maliki Osman, Cheryl Chan, Jessica Tan and Tan Kiat How of the People’s Action Party (top row) will face Workers’ Party candidates (bottom row) Nicole Seah, Kenneth Foo, Dylan Ng, Terence Tan and Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim . (Photos: People’s Action Party/Workers’ Party)
The WP slate for the constituency comprises of former National Solidarity Party (NSP) member Ms Nicole Seah, as well as Mr Kenneth Foo, Mr Dylan Ng, Mr Terence Tan and Mr Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim.
East Coast GRC is seen as a hotly contested battleground between the PAP and the WP, with the opposition party traditionally fielding a strong team.
In the last General Election, the PAP team, made up of Mr Maliki, Ms Tan, Mr Lim Swee Say, and Mr Lee Yi Shyan won East Coast GRC with 60.7 per cent of the vote against the WP’s team. In 2011, the margin was smaller, with the PAP winning the constituency with 54.8 per cent of the vote.
Speaking to reporters after the WP team for Aljunied GRC was confirmed at Deyi Secondary, WP chairman Sylvia Lim said: “The Workers’ Party is honoured that the PAP has seen it fit to send DPM Heng to helm the East Coast GRC (team).
“But of course, we are also quietly confident that the slate that we field there, and in fact the slate that we field in every constituency we are contesting in, are strong and diverse slates who will be able to represent the residents of the area well.”
ALJUNIED’S NEW CANDIDATES ARE “EXCELLENT PEOPLE”
Mr Singh and Ms Lim will be leading WP’s charge to defend Aljunied GRC. The pair, alongside party vice-chairman Faisal Manap, are incumbents, and they are joined by former Non-Constituency Members of Parliament (NCMP) Leon Perera and Gerald Giam.
Mr Perera and Mr Giam are replacing WP stalwarts – former party chief Low Thia Khiang and Mr Chen Show Mao – who are not contesting in this election.
Sylvia Lim and Pritam Singh of the Workers’ Party (WP) speak to the press after filing nomination papers at Deyi Secondary School, on Jun 30, 2020. (Photo: Jeremy Long)
Mr Singh highlighted that he was confident that both Mr Perera and Ms Giam would do well as they are “excellent people”.
“Both of them have proven to be very capable NCMPs, they are prepared to take on ministers in Parliament. More than that, I think they are very effective on the ground, they reach out to people, they speak humbly, they approach people, and they are not afraid to raise the issues that are faced by our residents to the party leadership for us to bring their voices into Parliament,” said Mr Singh.
When asked which hot button issues WP will raise for this General Election, Ms Lim replied: “Akan datang (Coming soon).”
“I think that will become clear as the campaign wears on,” Mr Singh added.
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Though we already knew that Lee Hsien Yang was not included in Progress Singapore Party’s (PSP) line-up, it was still somewhat of a letdown when it was confirmed that Lee would not be contesting in the upcoming general election.
Especially since he had told the media, “You wait and see.”, when he was spotted at the coffee shop outside a nomination centre with fellow PSP members this morning.
After nominations closed today (June 30), Lee wrote
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SINGAPORE: The electricity tariff will fall by an average of 15 per cent for the period from Jul 1 to Sep 30 due to lower energy costs, said SP Group on Tuesday (Jun 30).
Households will see a drop in the tariff from 23.02 cents to 19.60 cents per kilowatt hour, said SP Group in a media release.
Families living in four-room HDB flats can expect their average monthly bill to decrease by about S$12.
The latest tariff is the lowest since the October to December period in 2016, when it was at 19.13 cents per kWh.
SP Group reviews the electricity tariffs quarterly based on guidelines set by the Energy Market Authority, the electricity industry regulator.
The tariffs in the previous quarter fell by 5.1 per cent, falling from a five-year high in the first three months of 2020.
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Surprise candidates and unexpected deployments. Nomination Day (June 30) saw its fair share of curveballs thrown.
And now that the dust has settled, here’s what you need to know about what went down this morning.
1. The GRC to watch
PHOTO: Workers’ Party, People’s Action PartyWhile many suspected it might happen, it was still surprising when it actually did, and we’re now in for an interesting fight at East Coast GRC.
DPM Heng Swee Keat will be helming the GRC for the People’s Action Party (PAP), having been redeployed from Tampines GRC. Workers’ Party (WP) has fielded Nicole Seah, the breakout star of GE2011, who has been spotted walking the ground in the lead-up to Nomination Day.
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[UPDATED, 12.29pm]:
Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat will be the anchor minister for East Coast GRC.
DPM is anchor for East Coast, acc to nom centre papers. Interestingly, DPM Heng’s name is the only name pencilled in, adding to the “surprise” factor. #ge2020 pic.twitter.com/GnpySMNqvK
— Audrey Tan (@audreytrp) June 30, 2020
Alongside him are Maliki Osman, Tan Kiat How, Jessica Tan and Cheryl Chan, replacing former anchor representative Lim Swee Say and Lee Yi Shyan.
They will be facing the Workers’ Party team — Kenneth Foo, Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim, Terence Tan, Dylan Ng and Nicole Seah.
Will Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat be the anchor minister for East Coast GRC?
Breaking: DPM Heng Swee Keat just drove into the SAC nomination centre ( for East Coast, Sengkang, Pasir Ris Punggol GRCs and Punggol west SMC) #ge2020
— Audrey Tan (@audreytrp) June 30, 2020
He turned up at St Anthony’s Canossian Primary School, around 10 minutes after the rest of his team were led in by Senior Minister of State Maliki Osman. The school is the nomination centre for East Coast, Pasir Ris-Punggol, Sengkang and Punggol West GRCs.
For PAP East Coast, no sign of anchor minister yet. Those spotted here so far include: Maliki Osman, Jessica Tan, Cheryl Chan, Tan Kiat How. ST PHOTO: @limyaohui #ge2020 pic.twitter.com/sCAkWNpJZa
— Audrey Tan (@audreytrp) June 30, 2020
Heng is the ruling party’s first assistant secretary-general and the incumbent anchor minister in Tampines GRC.
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Nomination for GE2020 was closed at 12pm. There are no walkovers this election, while there will be two three-cornered fights at Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC and Pioneer SMC.
Who’s contesting where? Take a look below.
Aljunied GRC
WP: Gerald Giam, Faisal Manap, Pritam Singh, Sylvia Lim, Leon Perera
PAP: Victor Lye, Alex Yeo, Shamsul Kamar, Chan Hui Yuh, Chua Eng Leong
Ang Mo Kio GRC
PAP: Lee Hsien Loong, Gan Thiam Poh, Darryl David, Ng Ling Ling, Nadia Ahmad Samdin
RP: Kenneth Jeyaretnam, Andy Zhu, Charles Yeo, Darren Soh, Noraini Bte Yunus
Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC
PAP: Ng Eng Hen, Chee Hong Tat, Chong Kee Hiong, Saktiandi Supaat
SPP: Steve Chia, Williamson Lee, Osman Sulaiman, Melvyn Chiu
Bukit Batok SMC
PAP: Murali Pillai
SDP: Chee Soon Juan
Bukit Panjang SMC
SDP: Paul Tambyah
PAP: Liang Eng Hwa
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It looks like Tan Jee Say’s last-minute appeal to rejoin Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) has not fallen on deaf ears. The former chief of the now-dissolved Singaporeans First party will be standing for election as an SDP candidate.
His name was spotted together with SDP members Alfred Tan Wei Ru, James Gomez, and Cheong En Min on the nomination papers for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC.
https://twitter.com/AnitaGabrielBT/status/1277813945525391360
Tan had previously contested in Holland-Bukit Timah GRC with SDP in 2011, before he quit the party and formed Singaporeans First.
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It looks to be a replay of the 2011 general election when then-National Solidarity Party fresh face Nicole Seah was fielded in Marine Parade GRC, where former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong had been in the incumbent MP for the People’s Action Party (PAP) since 1976.
For the 2020 election, Seah and her Workers’ Party (WP) team will be battling DPM Heng Swee Keat, who is tipped to be the next Prime Minister, and the PAP team in East Coast GRC instead.
And it’s a new battleground for both as Seah did not participate in the 2015 general election and DPM Heng was previously an MP for Tampines GRC.
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Progess Singapore Party’s (PSP) Michael Chua has just confirmed that Lee Hsien Yang — brother of the People’s Action Party’s secretary-general Lee Hsien Loong — will not be running in the 2020 general election.
Mr Lee Hsien Yang seen at a coffeeshop near Bendemeer Primary School, which is the Nomination Centre for Tanjong Pagar GRC. PSP’s Michael Chua has just confirmed that Mr Lee will not be running – but will be back for lunch. #ge2020 pic.twitter.com/5y2mPk0EhV
— Michelle Teo (@MichelleTeoCNA) June 30, 2020
He was earlier spotted at a coffee shop near Bendemeer Primary School, the nomination centre for Tanjong Pagar GRC. He was later seen walking towards the nomination centre, but did not enter with the PSP candidates.
#GE2020: PSP's Lee Hsien Yang seen walking towards a nomination centre at Bedeemeer Pri School.
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— Yahoo Singapore (@YahooSG) June 30, 2020
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