All three candidates contesting in Pioneer SMC took a trip down memory lane while laying out their plans for residents at the start of the fifth night of televised constituency political broadcasts yesterday.
Speaking in English, he started off by recounting his time as a civil defence volunteer in the 1980s and being involved in two crises. "When the economy recovered, many of them went back to their work equipped with new certifications and new knowledge," said Mr Tay, who is an assistant secretary-general in the labour movement contesting his third election.
GE2020: PAP candidate for Pioneer SMC speaks in Constituency Political Broadcast, Jul 7 The opposition candidate, Mr Lim Cher Hong, 42, from Progress Singapore Party , said Singapore should be very proud of its development into a First World country, thanks to the hard work of forefathers and those in the Pioneer and Merdeka generations.
"We are worried how our children will cope in the future and if our parents will struggle in their old age," he said, noting that Singapore's"future is at stake here". If elected, he said, he is committed to serving the constituency as a full-time MP to push for local issues that residents care about and to maintain high standards of estate cleanliness.
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