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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1090380/1/.html
Singapore's Electoral Boundaries Review Committee convened
By S Ramesh | Posted: 30 October 2010 1715 hrs

HANOI: Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee has been convened.

Typically, the prime minister appoints the committee just before a General Election to review the electoral division boundaries and recommend changes.

The committee examines the growth of the voter population from the last General Election and recommends the number of Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) and single-member constituencies (SMCs) and their boundaries.

Speaking to the Singapore media on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Hanoi on Saturday, Mr Lee said he has issued the instruction to convene the committee and it is being chaired by the Secretary to the Cabinet.

On when the report would be out, Mr Lee said Singaporeans would have to wait and see.

Singapore's next general election is due by February 2012.

Prime Minister Lee said: "I don't think it is any surprise. Elections are due some time before February 2012, so if you haven't got the signal by now, something must be wrong with you."

The release of the report by the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee is seen as one of the clearest signals of a general election around the corner.

Mr Lee also revealed that he expects to bring in quite a number of new candidates and several potential office holders, adding that they will strengthen his leadership team.

There will be time to introduce them and for the electorate to get to know them, he said.

On the latest Cabinet revamp announced by him on Wednesday, before he left for the Hanoi summit, Mr Lee said it is a reshuffle with the cards which the government presently has.

He said: "It's a reshuffle with the cards which we presently have. For the ministers, as I said in my comment, it is a logical consequence or move which we set a couple of years ago when I appointed Lui Tuck Yew as Acting Minister and when I brought in Shanmugam as the Law Minister and Second Minister for Home Affairs. So gradually we are bringing them into positions and putting them in place.

"(For the) Parliamentary Secretaries, (their promotions) is a reward for performance and contributions. They are all deserving and I think they will continue to work hard in the same portfolios they have been hitherto, because I haven't reshuffled them. Beyond that, we will wait till I bring in new cards, which means I bring in new candidates, which will be in the general election."

Prime Minister Lee's revelation that the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee has been convened comes hot on the heels of a speech made by Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong on Friday at a university forum that the political buzz will increase in Singapore as many Singaporeans believe that the General Election will be held later this year or early next year.

Mr Goh had also said that the next General Election will be a watershed event because out of this election, the country must produce Singapore's fourth Prime Minister and a core team of younger Ministers who will take over from the present team.

For the 2006 General Election, the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee report was released about seven weeks before Nomination Day.

- CNA/ir
 

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