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SINGAPORE – The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) launched a new election campaign on Tuesday (April 28) – outlining the issues and proposals it intends to raise at the next general election.
The party said its new platform, called titled Four Yes, One No, or 4Y1N, is in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Last September, it launched a manifesto titled The Way Forward.
The first yes in its platform is a call for GST to be suspended the given the economic fallout of the pandemic. Its other proposals include retrenchment benefits to be paid to workers laid off as a result of the Covid-19 situation and a $500 monthly payment for some retirees.
The SDP said that under what it calls the SDP Restart (Re-Employment Scheme and Temporary Assistance for the ReTrenched) programme, if a worker is retrenched, the Government would pay 75 per cent of his last drawn salary for the first six months, 50 per cent for the subsequent six months, and 25 per cent for the final six months, capped at the median wage. The SDP first proposed this programme in 2015.
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