GE2025: SM Teo Chee Hean steps aside as Indranee Rajah leads PAP slate at new Pasir Ris-Changi GRC

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GE2025: SM Teo Chee Hean steps aside as Indranee Rajah leads PAP slate at new Pasir Ris-Changi GRC​

Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he remains “available to contribute” in any way PAP secretary-general Lawrence Wong sees fit.​

Introduction of team representing PAP for Pasir Ris-Changi GRC. (L-R) Sharael Taha, Indranee Rajah, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean, Valerie Lee. Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean will be stepping down. (Photo: CNA/Raj Nadarajan)

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SINGAPORE: The People’s Action Party (PAP) on Monday (Apr 21) announced that Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean will not be contesting the new Pasir Ris-Changi GRC, with Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Indranee Rajah helming the team instead.
Ms Indranee was a Member of Parliament in Tanjong Pagar GRC for 24 years. She is also Second Minister for Finance and Second Minister for National Development.
The four-member team will be completed by Senior Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Desmond Tan, former Pasir Ris-Punggol MP Sharael Taha, and new face Ms Valerie Lee.
While Mr Teo - anchor of Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC after the previous election - confirmed he will not be fielded in Pasir Ris-Changi, he said he remains “available to contribute” in any way PAP secretary-general Lawrence Wong sees fit.
“I would like to thank all our residents, all our volunteers, all our partners in Pasir Ris for your kindness, your friendship and your support for the past 28 years,” Mr Teo said.
“It has been my privilege and an honour to have served the residents of Pasir Ris and to have got to know so many of you children and also your grandchildren.”

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Mr Teo said he has “full confidence” that the current slate is a “strong team” that is ready to serve. “So, please give your support to the team,” he said.
As for Ms Indranee, she said that today’s introduction was “both poignant yet exciting at the same time”.
She added that she would miss the uncles and aunties (in Tanjong Pagar), but she assured the public that the party will field a solid team there, and being a candidate in Pasir-Ris Changi “brings a new opportunity to serve”.
At Pasir Ris-Changi, if elected, Ms Indranee said that she would like to focus on three areas – cost of living, families as well as infrastructure.

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“I am already involved in addressing (cost of living issues) at the national level, because of my work in the Ministry of Finance. I would like to do more of this at the local level.”

VALERIE LEE​

Ms Lee, 39, head of corporate affairs for Singapore and Southeast Asia at Sembcorp Industries, was previously spotted on the ground in West Coast GRC and East Coast GRC.
She was previously the chairman of The Frontier Community Club Management Committee in Pioneer SMC, and was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2023.

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Ms Lee was also formerly the director of Singtel’s energy business, and deputy director of SP Group’s commercial energy platform.
She is a mother of a two-year-old, and said during the press conference that she had two miscarriages previously.
“This experience has really grown in ways that I didn't expect, but it also made me more determined than ever to be a voice for those who often feel unheard in the journey of starting a family and subsequently maintaining one," she said.
“Through my years of volunteering, I've come to the conclusion that the best ideas don't come from the top, but from the ground up, from Singaporeans themselves. And I love bringing those ideas to life,” added Ms Lee.

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With the formation of a new Punggol GRC following last month’s Electoral Boundaries Review Committee report, the remaining districts in the now-defunct Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC were merged with adjacent areas from East Coast GRC. Together with the Loyang and Flora estates, they formed Pasir Ris-Changi GRC.
The Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) has said it will contest the GRC, with party chairman Desmond Lim saying it will focus its resources there. SDA has been contesting Pasir Ris-Punggol in every election since 2006 without success.
At the last election in 2020, Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC hosted a three-way contest between the PAP, SDA and People's Voice (PV). The PAP won with 64.16 per cent of the vote, while PV lost its deposit.
The People’s Alliance for Reform coalition, which comprises three parties including PV, did not include Pasir Ris-Changi in the seven constituencies it said it would contest.

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For this year’s election, Pasir Ris-Changi GRC will see 100,639 voters, with the East Coast wards - covering areas in Changi, Loyang as well as Pulau Ubin and Pulau Tekong - comprising 12,871 voters

 

[TanSong]

No more Ivan ?

 

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Throw file nee to lead Pasir Ris-Changi

 

[A Singaporean]

No more Ivan ?

No longer around since1584

 

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GE 2025: PAP's Indranee Rajah to leave Tanjong Pagar & lead Pasir Ris-Changi team​

New lineup.

The People's Action Party (PAP) unveiled their lineup that will contest the newly-created Pasir Ris-Changi GRC.

Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Indranee Rajah will anchor the team, while Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean will step down from the team.

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Senior Minister of State Desmond Tan, Sharael Taha, and new face Valerie Lee will round up the team.

Indranee stood for election in Tanjong Pagar GRC for the 2020 general election.

During the press conference, she said she felt both excitement and disappointment at having to leave the residents of Tanjong Pagar GRC, especially those in her Tanjong Pagar-Tiong Bahru ward.

She has been an MP for Tanjong Pagar since 2001, which is 24 years. Indranee spoke of the strong bonds and wonderful memories she created over the years.

She said it was an honour and a privilege to have served the residents there, and thanked them for their support. She added that the PAP will field a "solid team" in Tanjong Pagar.

Indranee then said that the creation of the new Pasir Ris-Changi GRC brings a new opportunity to serve.

"I think residents of Pasir Ris-Changi would like to know what would be my focus if elected," Indranee said.

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"My focus will be on the residents here, your needs, your aspirations, and also look at how to continue to improve this town, building on the good work that Mr Teo and [the team] have done."

Indranee elaborated that at the national level, in her roles at the Ministries of Finance and National Development, she will push for support as long as its needed to help residents with the cost of living.

She will also have a "strong focus on families", and spoke of her previous efforts to support families in her role at the Ministry of National Development, such as introducing 10 weeks of shared parental leave.

Indranee also intends to look at infrastructure and plug the gaps in "last mile" issues and help connectivity for the residents.

She ended by acknowledging the "tremendous work" that SM Teo has done in the area, and how he has been a part of the residents' lives, with many of them having "grown up" while SM Teo was serving as their MP

 

[bobby]

hope she cause them to lose

 

[bobby]

She is one fuggly cunt….

 

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She is one fuggly cunt….

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Throw file nee won't be happy hearing this

 

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Who take over throwfile nee Tanjong Pagar?

 

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This fuels speculation that Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean, who was expected to helm the GRC, could be moved elsewhere, possibly to the hotly contested Punggol GRC.

 

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Teo to save sinking punggol ship?

 

[Hightech88]

Muud MINISTER Osman already announced retirement from politics. So this CB Hean still want to collect this million-dollar salary without being an MP? Can like that one meh? Totally ridiculous and shameless NBCB. Will Laolan Wong dare to remove this SM post and salary and then see whether he is still “available to contribute in any way” LOL.

 

[rotiprata]

her shirt so white.. but face looks so black.. ??

 

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Teo to punggol?
Who take over throw file nee?

 

[Charlie99]

She is one fuggly cunt….

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It looks like she needs a dental assistant to do some scaling, cleaning, and fluoride application. Please consider using an electric tooth brush

 

[shock888]

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Teo to save sinking punggol ship?

Teo CH should get another partner and retire into the sunset.
Saw him once in Balestier Road walking aimlessly alone under the mid-day sun.

 

[Charlie99]

Is the mother of Hazlina Abdul Malim, an ethnic Chinese?

 

[Loofydralb]

Is the mother of Hazlina Abdul Malim, an ethnic Chinese?

You mean you didn't know? It's been happening for decades. PAP will look for 'Malays' that have Chinese ancestry. There a long list of PAP MPs who had Chinese heritage since Abdullah Tarmugi.
Yet they gaslight the Malay community as not trusting them?
They should have retired indranee. Nobody likes her. Her conceit and superiority complex is evident. Now PAP going to lose votes.

 

[Charlie99]

You mean you didn't know? It's been happening for decades. PAP will look for 'Malays' that have Chinese ancestry. There a long list of PAP MPs who had Chinese heritage since Abdullah Tarmugi.
Yet they gaslight the Malay community as not trusting them?
They should have retired indranee. Nobody likes her. Her conceit and superiority complex is evident. Now PAP going to lose votes.

I was unaware, mainly because I have been a non resident for more than forty years.
I googled and read about her, and there is no clear info on who her mother is, except that it indicated that she is of mixed ancestry (descent).

 

[Sideswipe]

if TCH doesn't retire, send him off with an electoral defeat.