The People's Action Party (PAP) will have to examine what are the broader issues that caused a swing in votes against it at the election, said Speaker of Parliament Tan Chuan-Jin yesterday. The 51-year-old noted that PAP saw a swing against it across the board, including in...
The team led by Mr Tan comprised incumbents Seah Kian Peng, 58, and Senior Minister of State for Law and Health Edwin Tong, 50, as well as new faces Mohd Fahmi Aliman, 47, and Tan See Leng, 55."It's not possible for every single person to be involved, but can we have more platforms? I think that can be done," he said.
Mr Tan added that apps such as Zoom, Instagram and Facebook are alternative platforms that allow him to engage with different groups of residents. "Generally, people, even my age, will feel like we want to participate because unlike, say, earlier generations, our education level is a lot higher. We're a lot more aware of things. We would like to feel that we matter and we're not just some anonymous entity."He pointed to how there was unhappiness among the population at large during his first election in 2011, which saw the PAP return to power with its lowest-ever vote share of 60.1 per cent.
In 2015, the party scored a resounding win with 69.9 per cent of the votes - a result that has been attributed to factors such as the death of founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew and the feel-good effect from SG50 celebrations."Some people come up to me and say, 'I support you, I like you, but not ready to give you the vote because I would like to have a choice.' So there's that element. And there will also be those that are not happy with how we have performed.
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