SINGAPORE — The Workers’ Party has explained its decision not to send a candidate to participate in a televised General Election debate in Mandarin on national television on Wednesday .
Proficient Mandarin speakers in WP not contestingThe four political parties contesting the highest number of seats at the GE were invited by Mediacorp to send a candidate each to televised debates in English and Mandarin. While WP sent Sengkang group representation constituency candidate Jamus Lim to the English edition, it decline the invitation to the Mandarin debate.
“One of the reasons Mr Low joined WP in the mid-1980s was because our Mandarin translation in some of our collaterals were not up to the mark,” Pritam said. PAP-lite? Pritam hopes PAP takes up all of WP’s manifesto pointsPritam also responded to Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan’s comment during the televised English debate that WP is “PAP-lite”.
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