SINGAPORE - Workers' Party candidate Leon Perera said the voices of Non-Constituency MPs can be ignored in Parliament, but those of fully elected opposition MPs cannot be so easily ignored.
"The PAP does not need the current levels of representation - over 90 per cent of full seats - to govern, but they need over 66 per cent of seats to change the Constitution without a referendum, as they did in 2016," he added. "How will the PAP's arguments change in the second half? Will we see unfair personal attacks? I hope not."
He said that this point was glaringly missing from opposition party manifestos and discussions in the past days and weeks. "These are not gap-plugging or half-step-to-the-left measures but serious, much-needed and well-informed reforms," said Mr Perera.
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