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If you really want a regime change in 10 years, it can only happen one way - all the best people from the opposition parties join Worker's Party. Nicole Seah, VW, SPP people, plus the WP pick up a few more people with CSM's pedigree. It will be the strength of the party combined with the strength of the candidates that win the votes. Unfortunately, I don't see this happening either because I don't see these people joining WP willingly, I don't see WP accepting all of them willingly, and there's not enough of these kind of people.
As you say, ideal but undoable. Next best thing is to have all the best people in opposition remain in their respective parties but forming an alliance, a super-body, for the purpose of formulating electoral strategies toward winning a majority ... and when the time comes, a coalition govt. Talented candidates do not need the WP label to win, but their parties need to minimize cannibalizing one another's votes if they are to defeat PAP in key constituencies.
IMO, a regime change would take 20 years... and that is being optimistic. Like it or not (I don't), we should expect to be ruled under PAP for at least another 20 years, unless something unexpected implodes within the PAP.
Without opposition collaboration, even 20 years (4 GEs) is optimistic. PAP is not going to sit around and allow opposition representation to creep up by 10 seats every election without tweaking the playing field further in their favour, rewriting the constitution if necessary (that's why the first aim is to wrest 2/3 majority away).
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