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SINGAPORE – The People’s Action Party (PAP) on Thursday night (July 2) said the election campaign of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) is pointless now that a key plank of its campaign has been proven false.
The “No to 10 million population”, which is part of the SDP’s Four Yes, One No campaign slogan for the general election, is based on a false claim that the Government plans to raise the country’s population to 10 million, the PAP noted.
The ruling party said the honourable thing for SDP chief Chee Soon Juan to do would have been to admit that his party’s campaign was based on a falsehood, withdraw it, and apologise to Singaporeans for misleading them.
“But that would have been out of character,” the PAP said.
“Instead, Dr Chee further twists the facts. He now claims the SDP has ‘achieved victory’ by extracting a promise from the PAP that it had no intention to increase the population to 10 million,” it added.
The PAP statement came hours after the SDP said that Dr Chee had “successfully extracted an assurance from the PAP that it has no intention of increasing the population to 6.9 or 10 million”.
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