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2012
Singapore Hougang Elections 2012
Following the Expulsion of Worker’s Part Member Yaw Shin Leong for a controversial extra martial affair on 14/02/2012, this will be the 16th by-election since the first election and the first by-election after over 19 years. Nomination day will be on 16 May 2012.
On 22 February 2012, the Speaker Michael Palmer declared the seat vacant, effective from the date of expulsion, as required by the Constitution.
This by-election is the result of the expulsion of Yaw Shin Leong, Member of Parliament (MP) for Hougang, from the Workers’ Party (WP). This made Yaw lose his responsibility as the treasurer. Under the Constitution of Singapore, an MP’s seat falls vacant if the MP is expelled from the party under whose banner he or she stood for election. The last MP to have been expelled from his party was Chiam See Tong, expelled from the Singapore Democratic Party in 1993 (but reinstated in December the same year after a ruling by the High Court.
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our hougang residents now have a chance to vote for a new MP. hope they will do the needful and vote wisely this time round.
The problem is the LOUSY party that still want 6.8 million population. Not the MP. It’s not personnel anyway.
So just enjoy the show.
Ah Choo is young and good looking and he should garner a lots of vote from aunties.
i just got a feeling, the PAP may be in for a surprise this time round.
Do not rule out that Hougang resident might just decided to vote for the PAP for a change, after YSL scandal, since there is already an opposition GRC in parliament.
The pressure now is nil for Hougang resident to shoulder the responsibility of ensuring a opposition party in parliament. They might just want to be selfish for their own good to have PAP serving their constituency. Worker party might risk a hard battle to convince the Hougang residents that their selection process for party candidate is thorough and responsible. Best to field a female candidate instead.
WP winning this seat is a foregone conclusion. Now is whether WP will give them a trashing by 90% of the votes
err..suprise win? .MAYBE NOT . NOT AFTER READING on LATEST DISCUSSIONS category
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Young PAP Choo chances of winning would better if his party big shots like Goh Chok Tong, Lee Hsien Loong, Tharman is able to restrain themselves from supporting Choo by drumming down the opposition with party issues that are irrelevant to the majority of Singaporean. They may thing it is important for Singapore but Singaporen does not think so and would vote against them just like teenagers rebelling against their parents’ good intention nagging.
This one will b a fierce fight. I m looking forward to it
I just feel that just bcos of YSL, we overthrow the effort and hardship that Mr Low Thia Khiang has showered for us over the years. YSL should be responsible of what he has done and we should not blame the whole of worker party.
Just like when a child made mistake, not only we blame the parents but we blame the siblings and relatives as well. That is not right, YSL has been punished for what he has done by losing his job and everyone has their own privacy. Who are we to demand an answer from him. Just bcos he is a public figure, we have to take away his freedom?
If Desmond Choo wants to be the new MP, he got to show us what he has done for us first and not ask us to vote for him then give us the “reward”. It is time PAP should learn how to “give” rather than “take”.
everyone deserves a second chance. so in this case, WP deserves a second shot, especially after all that they have done for the hougang residents all these years. Yaw is historied. Let’s look forward to the next WP leader to lead Hougang.
i truly hope WP can retain Hougang. we really need more opposite voices in the parliament.
The PAP’s strength is its collective body of academic and intelligent people. It’s archilles heel is its repeated inability to read emotions and connect with people. Time and again it comes up with great strategies and theories and executions, and time and again it feels it is wasting time by engaging people and end up making people feel they have been run roughshod, trivialised and shunted aside in pursuit of bigger and more lucrative objectives. The PAP still looks and sounds the same as it has always been.
I am not sure how PAP came to the decision to put what appears to be an estab man at Hougang. If you ask me, I think the PAP’s strategy is more risky than any the WP can put forward. Voting patterns at Hougang suggests they have a clear and firm desire for an alternative voice and real opposition. The PAP’s candidate is as white as the PAP can be, and having accepted a Government Scholarship before and spending so many years in the public sector, you might expect Hougang voters to wonder how much of an opposition he can possibly be. Has the PAP run out of viable suitable heartlander candidates?
Hey, will Singapore reach a stage here where the foreigners and PRs say :
“Hey we are a substantial minority here (more than one third) and our life depends on the type of govt here, we should also be given a voting rights in your General election too. ”
???
And a declining but still majority PAP would gladly take the opportunity to change the constitutional laws to at least .allow the PRs here a voting rights in our GE.
Never say never. At the rate Singaporean Chinese are reproducing, there may come a day when there are so many Filipinos in Singapore Tagalog becomes one of the mainstream languages.
i totally agree. we need more “alternate voices” in the parliament. else we the commoners will have no more say in life here. everything will be decided by the government.
i dread to see WP lose this. it will be so sad.
I feel that elections are held at a national level. The wrong doings of Yaw shin leong is a personal affair and should not be a reason used to adjudge this by-election. No doubt Yaw did something wrong. He is out of the party, and we should look forward, not backwards.
I hope the PAP will not use this as an excuse to attack WP. Be a gentleman and fight the election as one.
Foreign talent is one of the fiercely debated issues in singapore.
the only time the government will stop bringing in foreign talent is when they have computed statistically that majority of the talent they bring in are voting against them.
no amount of plea, resentment from us singaporeans can ever change that.
it will only change when they are beaten at their own game.
in order for singapore to progress in a more democratic way, in my opinion, we need at least around 20% opposition voices in the parliament.
Retaining Hougang is essential and it is just the first step to building a better singapore.
We should have foreign talent as ministers as well. I think Obama will gladly do the job for less pay.
Foreigner that come in to apply for Permanent residential status should be made to serve NS as well. Don’t expect us singaporeans to defend them if we ever need to go to war. NONE HOME GROWN LADS will NEVER EVER be regarded as US.
i cant wait to hear the empty carrot promises from PAP again. they do it time and again, repeat that damn process and treat us as fools.
i actually see this pretty much as a walkover affair for WP. not because the candidate they fill is exceptionally competent, but singaporeans see the rising need to fill more oppositions in the parliament.
desmond choo seems like a better choice this time round.
its good that YSL is apologising for his actions afteer a long period of silence. WP deserves a second chance for this. Hope the Hougang residents will give them a second chance.
Alamak, is he trying to take revenge on the Worker Party for expelling him? As a politician before, he should know better that under his circumstances, it best that he keep silence so that people won’t be reminded strongly again of his scandal, which will affect the worker party image.
By saying this, voters will take it that his connection to the Worker party is still not broken entirely and will have doubts over the party image.
I also take the stand of a neutral party and does not side with either political party but will not write so much.
So in summary, people, let us vote with proper considerations on the negative/positive feel we had from the current party, not just impulse on the negative/positive feel we had from the previous party. =)
No divorcing of national from local issues, say WP speakers at rally.
http://www.straitstimes.com/The-Big-Story/The-Big-Story-2/Story/STIStory_800736.html
heard that PM Lee is going with Desmond Choo to do home visits. same old trick again. sian.
i doubt bread and butter issues like
1) rising transport cost
2) influx of foreign talents
will ever be addressed.
each time we have a rally or a MP talks about this issue, nobody ever suggest anything concrete. i heard enough crap from them. this time round, i am sitting out. not wasting my time on all the senseless rally.
afterall, if it goes to WP or PAP, life goes on. nothing is going to change.
prices go up – “this is because of inflation”
foreigner steal our job – “foreigner boost our GDP. to need talent to sustain”
arrrgggghhh. give me a break.
stupid idiot senseless rallies. i rather sleep.
politicians trying to pull last minute votes always amuse me. its like praying to pass your exams with flying colors when you didnt put in the effort to study.
this one will be one hell of a close fight. i expect some of the WP supporters to throw in a vote for PAP this time round.
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