<TABLE id=msgUN border=0 cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD id=msgUNsubj vAlign=top>Coffeeshop Chit Chat - Low: It’s for voters to decide, not PAP</TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right></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>kojakbt89 <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>Apr-23 8:18 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 8) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"></TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>48501.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD id=msgtxt_1 class=msgtxt>Low Thia Kiang: It’s for voters, not PAP to decide how parliament evolves
April 24th, 2011 |
Author: Your Correspondent
Hougang MP Low Thia Kiang calls the PAP ‘arrogant’ for dictating the type of parliament Singapore should have, in response to the PAP’s challenge for it to define what it means by a ‘First world parliament’.
“It’s not for the PAP to decide, neither is it for the Workers’ Party to decide. It is for the voters to decide. We must always remember that. I think the PAP is being very arrogant to ignore the wishes and the will of the voters in an election,” Mr Low was quoted as saying in Channel News Asia.
Mr Low also rebutted PAP Education Minister Ng Eng Hen’s assertion that having opposition MPs would weaken government.
“If Dr Ng is engaging or employing the same old tactic of the PAP in the early days, it could well threaten that there will be freak election result, since more than 50 per cent of the seats are contested. That would be his election strategy,” said Mr Low.
Singapore is the only first world nation in the world which is a single-party state. All the rest are multi-party democracies which have strong opposition parties in parliament to check on the ruling party(s).
Mr Low also questioned the point of having election if the PAP is the one who decides the type of parliament Singapore should have.
“If this is the assumption, then why hold elections? Then we might as well have all the PAP MPs… I suppose it’s typical PAP. They want some voices, noises in Parliament, but they do not want representation from the people,” he added.
The PAP regime never want representation from the people. It just want to govern Singapore at its whims and fancies without any checks and balances and the NCMP scheme is merely a ‘wayang’ for Singaporeans to raise ‘alternative’ voices in parliament, but are completely powerless to check on the PAP as they have no voting rights as illustrated by a comment made by Dr Ng yesterday.
“Every election, it is never about just alternative voices in Parliament, because your vote is very powerful and for every General Election you are deciding on who runs the country. If it is just for alternative voices, the NCMP scheme allows for that, you can raise anything you want in Parliament,” he said.
The PAP doesn’t seem to get it. Singaporeans do not want just alternative voices in parliament. They are sick and tired of the PAP and want a different team to run the country.
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Joseph
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Hougang MP Low Thia Kiang calls the PAP ‘arrogant’ for dictating the type of parliament Singapore should have, in response to the PAP’s challenge for it to define what it means by a ‘First world parliament’.
“It’s not for the PAP to decide, neither is it for the Workers’ Party to decide. It is for the voters to decide. We must always remember that. I think the PAP is being very arrogant to ignore the wishes and the will of the voters in an election,” Mr Low was quoted as saying in Channel News Asia.
Mr Low also rebutted PAP Education Minister Ng Eng Hen’s assertion that having opposition MPs would weaken government.
“If Dr Ng is engaging or employing the same old tactic of the PAP in the early days, it could well threaten that there will be freak election result, since more than 50 per cent of the seats are contested. That would be his election strategy,” said Mr Low.
Singapore is the only first world nation in the world which is a single-party state. All the rest are multi-party democracies which have strong opposition parties in parliament to check on the ruling party(s).
Mr Low also questioned the point of having election if the PAP is the one who decides the type of parliament Singapore should have.
“If this is the assumption, then why hold elections? Then we might as well have all the PAP MPs… I suppose it’s typical PAP. They want some voices, noises in Parliament, but they do not want representation from the people,” he added.
The PAP regime never want representation from the people. It just want to govern Singapore at its whims and fancies without any checks and balances and the NCMP scheme is merely a ‘wayang’ for Singaporeans to raise ‘alternative’ voices in parliament, but are completely powerless to check on the PAP as they have no voting rights as illustrated by a comment made by Dr Ng yesterday.
“Every election, it is never about just alternative voices in Parliament, because your vote is very powerful and for every General Election you are deciding on who runs the country. If it is just for alternative voices, the NCMP scheme allows for that, you can raise anything you want in Parliament,” he said.
The PAP doesn’t seem to get it. Singaporeans do not want just alternative voices in parliament. They are sick and tired of the PAP and want a different team to run the country.
.
Joseph
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