Share 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 [...]

Share SINGAPORE – Two Workers’ Party Members of Parliament made their maiden speeches in the House yesterday, only to see their arguments met with robust rebuttals by People’s Action Party (PAP) MPs. One protracted exchange was between WP Non-Constituency MP Gerald Giam and PAP MP Christopher De Souza (Holland-Bukit Timah GRC), with WP chief Low Thia Khiang (Aljunied GRC) joining the fray to seek clarification. Another involved WP’s Chen Show Mao (Aljunied GRC), who was [...]

Share Foreign Minister George Yeo is just one of the 3 ministerial casualties to have fallen in the Singapore Elections 2011. The Worker’s Part (WP) had captured the first GRC in Singapore’s history – the Aljunied GRC. This is a new chapter has opened in Singapore’s politics after Saturday’s polls. Mr Yeo, a Foreign Minister and a core member of the People’s Action Party (PAP) Cabinet, was gracious in defeat. Flanked by his teammates Minister [...]

Share Word about the result of this General Election’s most closely watched, and hardest fought, contest began circulating from as early as 10.45pm last night – Aljunied GRC had fallen, it was murmured. Hoping for some earlier sign, the media had been on the tail of Foreign Minister George Yeo, the People’s Action Party’s helmsman in the division, when he arrived at the Damai Secondary counting centre at about 8.15pm. He spent more than an [...]

Share general election 2011 | general election 2011 results | election 2011 results singapore | singapore newspaper online | george yeo | Singapore General Elections 2011: This year, the elections has turned out to be very favorable for the Worker’s Party (WP). The big gamble paid off. WP managed to retain it’s parlimentary seat in Hougang SMC and captured Aljunied GRC. Going forward, WP will have 6 parlimentary seats in the parliment. History was witnessed [...]