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Subscribe </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead vAlign=top><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>nextinfidel <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>Dec-15 7:54 pm </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 6) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>25868.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>I myself hope Mr Chiam will go out and contest AMK GRC itself. Forget Toa Payoh or Tampines. just attack direct at cancer boy's doorstep and threathen his Prime Ministership.
last shot for Mr Chiam before he intends to retire. give it a good shot for us all. you never try, you never know.
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Mr Chiam See Tong urged all opposition parties to contest as many group representation and single member constituencies in the next General Election
December 12, 2009 by Field Reporter
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Reporting on site from Potong Pasir, 9.50pm, 12 December 2009
Before Mr Chiam went on stage to give his speech, a 10-minute slideshow depicting Mr Chiam’s colorful political career was screened to the audience from his first election as an independent in 1976 to the last one in 2006 to loud applause from the crowd which was broken intermittently by shouts of “Chiam See Tong! We support you!”
The slide ended with a message – “5 more years for Mr Chiam” to loud cheers of approval from the guests. It is still unclear if Mr Chiam will be contesting in Potong Pasir in the next general election due by 2011 as he had earlier indicated his desire to lead a GRC.
During a brief, but detailed 10-minute speech, Mr Chiam described how lonely he was in parliament as one of the only two opposition MPs. The other MP is Workers’ Party MP Mr Low Thia Kiang. He was the only non-PAP MP in parliament between the years 1985 and 1991.
Mr Chiam bemoaned the fact that though 40 per cent of the electorate has constantly voted for the opposition, they are represented by only 2 per cent of the seats in parliament.
He said that if Singapore were to become a first world democracy like the United States and United Kingdom, it needs to have more opposition MPs in parliament to check on the ruling party as a nation governed by one dominant party is uhealthy and will soon degenerate to become a dictatorship.
Mr Chiam recounted his accomplishments during his 25 years in parliament such as calling for the abolishment of the graduate mother scheme, compulsory education for all Singaporeans, reduction of the size of primary school classes, taking the government to task over the 1988 “Marxist conspiracy” and fighting for the release of former ISD detainee Chia Thye Poh.
He thanked Potong Pasir residents for voting for him consecutively for five terms since he was first elected in 1984 and praised them for their courage to keep the opposition alive in Singapore.
“Everybody knows that Potong Pasir is the heart of the opposition in Singapore,” he said to the roaring approval of the guests who were listening attentively to his speech.
Towards the end of his speech, Mr Chiam called on “all opposition parties to contest as many group representation and single member constituencies in the next General Election.”
Though most of the guests were Potong Pasir residents, it appeared that Mr Chiam had fans from other constituencies as well. A group of Queenstown residents prepared a board for him printed with a Chinese idiom meaning that “one would be able to achieve the impossible with collective grit and determination”.
The leaders of various opposition parties were next invited on stage to give a toast to the guests together with Mr Chiam and his wife Lina followed by the singing of a famous Hokkien song – “Ai4 Piah3 Ai4 Aye2 Yai2″ or “One can only win by slogging!”
The opposition certainly needs to slog hard to win the support of Singaporeans in the next election as they face an uphill task competing against the PAP juggernaut which has full control of the media, police, civil service, grassroots organizations and all other state institutions.
While it is heartening to see Mr Chiam still enjoying widespread support Potong Pasir residents, one cannot help wondering if his successor will be as charismatic and popular as he is.
It will be a pity if Potong Pasir, a bastion of the opposition, were to fall into the hands of the PAP in the next election should Mr Chiam decide to contest elsewhere.
Copyright © The Temasek Review, 2009
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last shot for Mr Chiam before he intends to retire. give it a good shot for us all. you never try, you never know.
_____________________________________________________________
Mr Chiam See Tong urged all opposition parties to contest as many group representation and single member constituencies in the next General Election
December 12, 2009 by Field Reporter
Filed under Headlines
Leave a comment
Reporting on site from Potong Pasir, 9.50pm, 12 December 2009
Before Mr Chiam went on stage to give his speech, a 10-minute slideshow depicting Mr Chiam’s colorful political career was screened to the audience from his first election as an independent in 1976 to the last one in 2006 to loud applause from the crowd which was broken intermittently by shouts of “Chiam See Tong! We support you!”
The slide ended with a message – “5 more years for Mr Chiam” to loud cheers of approval from the guests. It is still unclear if Mr Chiam will be contesting in Potong Pasir in the next general election due by 2011 as he had earlier indicated his desire to lead a GRC.
During a brief, but detailed 10-minute speech, Mr Chiam described how lonely he was in parliament as one of the only two opposition MPs. The other MP is Workers’ Party MP Mr Low Thia Kiang. He was the only non-PAP MP in parliament between the years 1985 and 1991.
Mr Chiam bemoaned the fact that though 40 per cent of the electorate has constantly voted for the opposition, they are represented by only 2 per cent of the seats in parliament.
He said that if Singapore were to become a first world democracy like the United States and United Kingdom, it needs to have more opposition MPs in parliament to check on the ruling party as a nation governed by one dominant party is uhealthy and will soon degenerate to become a dictatorship.
Mr Chiam recounted his accomplishments during his 25 years in parliament such as calling for the abolishment of the graduate mother scheme, compulsory education for all Singaporeans, reduction of the size of primary school classes, taking the government to task over the 1988 “Marxist conspiracy” and fighting for the release of former ISD detainee Chia Thye Poh.
He thanked Potong Pasir residents for voting for him consecutively for five terms since he was first elected in 1984 and praised them for their courage to keep the opposition alive in Singapore.
“Everybody knows that Potong Pasir is the heart of the opposition in Singapore,” he said to the roaring approval of the guests who were listening attentively to his speech.
Towards the end of his speech, Mr Chiam called on “all opposition parties to contest as many group representation and single member constituencies in the next General Election.”
Though most of the guests were Potong Pasir residents, it appeared that Mr Chiam had fans from other constituencies as well. A group of Queenstown residents prepared a board for him printed with a Chinese idiom meaning that “one would be able to achieve the impossible with collective grit and determination”.
The leaders of various opposition parties were next invited on stage to give a toast to the guests together with Mr Chiam and his wife Lina followed by the singing of a famous Hokkien song – “Ai4 Piah3 Ai4 Aye2 Yai2″ or “One can only win by slogging!”
The opposition certainly needs to slog hard to win the support of Singaporeans in the next election as they face an uphill task competing against the PAP juggernaut which has full control of the media, police, civil service, grassroots organizations and all other state institutions.
While it is heartening to see Mr Chiam still enjoying widespread support Potong Pasir residents, one cannot help wondering if his successor will be as charismatic and popular as he is.
It will be a pity if Potong Pasir, a bastion of the opposition, were to fall into the hands of the PAP in the next election should Mr Chiam decide to contest elsewhere.
Copyright © The Temasek Review, 2009
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