SINGAPORE — For the second straight General Election , Singapore will see all parliamentary seats being contested, with 192 candidates from 11 political parties filing nomination papers on Tuesday .
“COVID-19 has plunged the world into a period of profound uncertainty, into a major crisis on many fronts. The PAP has a plan to enable us to overcome this crisis... a plan to emerge stronger from this,” Heng said in his thank-you speech after submitting his nomination forms at St Anthony’s Canossian Primary School.
NCMP scheme a hot topicWith all 93 seats being contested, Prime Minister and PAP secretary-general Lee Hsien Loong said that his party will have to fight for every vote. “Even if the PAP took all the elected seats, which we do not take for granted and cannot be a given, you will still have 12 ,” she had said in a virtual press conference.
Story continuesSDP secretary-general Chee Soon Juan will face PAP’s Murali Pillai in Bukit Batok SMC for a second straight election, after he lost to Pillai in the 2016 by-election. PSP’s Tan Cheng Bock confirmed battling in West Coast GRCIn Aljunied GRC, the WP team of Pritam Singh, Sylvia Lim, Faisal Manap, Gerald Giam and Leon Perera will defend the constituency against a PAP team featuring three candidates in their unsuccessful 2015 team: Shamsul Kamar, Victor Lye and Chua Eng Leong. New candidates Alex Yeo and Chan Hui Yih complete the PAP team.
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