Voters expect more opposition MPs to play a supervisory role, the government's response to the epidemic needs improvement

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Ref : https://www.8world.com/news/singapore/article/13ge-pap-1188561

Extract translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan

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Analysts interviewed believe that voters want to see more opposition MPs in Parliament play a supervisory role, and that the government's ability to respond to the covid epidemic needs to be improved, which is the main reason for the decline in the votes of the People's Action Party.

Associate Professor Chong Ja Ian of the Department of Politics at the National University of Singapore believes that the results of this election generally reflect the concerns of voters about the prospects, but the result of the PAP’s loss of the Sengkang GRC is unexpected.

Chong commented, "Because I originally thought that the competition in West Coast and the East Coast GRCs would be very, very close. There are many young families in Sengkang, so they will have more concerns about the future and may feel that the past performance is past tense. I think the members of the Workers’ Party gave voters a lot of confidence."

Associate Professor Chong also believes that the electoral districts led by the main fourth-generation leadership groups, such as the East Coast and Tanjong Pagar, have seen their votes fall, showing that they need to put forward unique political opinions to make voters more impressed.

In addition, Dr. Peng Lishan, senior researcher of the Department of Communication and New Media of the NUS and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore Policy Research Institute, believes that the resource-rich PAP has made great efforts in online election campaigns, but the candidates give voters the impression of being too formal and formal. The two "Internet celebrity" candidates of the Workers' Party have, to a certain extent, attracted the attention of voters.

Peng Lishan said, "The first one is Jamus Lim, especially after the public debate in the eyes of netizens are quite popular, just talking about this candidate is actually not inferior to other candidates of the DAP.  Raeesah Khan is the other. Netizens have always supported her online. The voters in Sengkang are actually quite young. In fact, this also means that young people's ideas are a little different."

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TOP 5 GRC Proposition vs Opposition Polling Competition Results

Party             GRC              Vote Percentage

PAP       West Coast            51.69%

WP        Sengkang               52.13%

PAP      East Coast              53.41%

PAP      Marine Parade        57.76%

PAP      Choa Chu Kang      58.64%

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