- Joined
- Jul 18, 2014
- Messages
- 4,842
- Points
- 113
Never seen Lawrence speaks so nervously before, weird. PAP MPs start to feel the pressure from opposition liao..LOL:
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ge2025-one-term-mps-pap-refreshed-team-5086026
Five People's Action Party MPs are stepping down and not contesting in GE2025 after one term in office. From left: Ms Carrie Tan, Mr Derrick Goh, Mr Don Wee, Mr Fahmi Aliman and Ms Ng Ling Ling. (Photos: PAP)
SINGAPORE: At the close of nominations on Wednesday (Apr 23), 20 former Members of Parliament (MPs) from the People’s Action Party (PAP) were confirmed to not be contesting this election - and a quarter of them had served just one term.
The retiring MPs make up 24 per cent of the PAP’s 83 elected MPs at the start of the 14th term parliament.
While the PAP makes it a point to refresh its slate each election and backbenchers seldom serve more than four terms, records from previous elections indicate it is unusual for MPs to retire from politics after a single term.
Data compiled by CNA shows that in the last two elections, the PAP only had a single one-term MP retirement - the former Chua Chu Kang GRC MP Yee Chia Hsing, who was elected in 2015 and retired in 2020.
The party had 20 MPs retiring in the 2020 General Election, and 14 MPs stepping down in 2015.
This means that the PAP retired 24 per cent of its MPs ahead of GE2020, and 17.2 per cent of its MPs ahead of GE2015.
For this election, there were five one-term MPs stepping aside. Ten of the retiring MPs had served between two terms and four terms, while five retiring MPs had served more than four terms.
The longest serving is former Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean, who entered politics in 1992. He had been an MP in Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC since 1997, having been elected to represent the constituency six times.
Former Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat, who turned up at the nomination centre for East Coast and Punggol GRCs, also announced his retirement from politics in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
Mr Heng, a three-term MP, entered politics in 2011 in Tampines GRC. In 2020, he was the subject of a late-hour switch from Tampines to East Coast GRCs, but on Wednesday his name did not appear on any of the PAP’s slates.
Former Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen, who announced his retirement on Apr 18, had been in parliament for five terms, since 2006.
One GRC that has surprised observers with a completely new slate is Nee Soon where anchor minister K Shanmugam is the only familiar face. All other sitting MPs moved to a different ward or stepped down.
They will be replaced with four new candidates - Ms Goh Hanyan, Dr Syed Harun Alhabsyi, Ms Lee Huiying and Mr Jackson Lam.
Former Nee Soon MPs Carrie Tan and Derrick Goh (who served one term) and Mr Louis Ng (who served two terms) announced their retirements, while Associate Professor Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim has moved to contest in Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC.
Responding to a reporter’s questions about the number of new candidates in Nee Soon when they were introduced on Monday, Mr Shanmugam said: “I think there are 32 new candidates, as the Prime Minister has pointed out, and whether one term, two terms or more, you present the best slate that you can find.”
The PAP has also refreshed its slates in opposition-held wards Aljunied GRC, Sengkang GRC and Hougang SMC.
The only GRCs that have unchanged line-ups are Holland-Bukit Timah GRC and Mr Wong’s Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC.
Mr Teo Chee Hean, introducing candidates for Pasir Ris-Changi GRC on Monday, said that the PAP has always had a policy of self-renewal.
“This is quite key because you can see in several countries, where they have not self-renewed on a regular basis, in a systematic basis, that the leadership becomes weak and you have a gap,” he had said.
He added that this renewal is even more important during this “particularly turbulent time”.
Dr Ng Eng Hen, when he announced he was retiring, made similar remarks about the importance of renewing the party, pointing out that others before him retired to make way for himself when he entered politics.
“I think it’s a virtue that PAP forces itself to renew and that more senior politicians like myself, we emulate the examples that we saw when we came in as newbies,” he said.
-------------------
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ge2025-one-term-mps-pap-refreshed-team-5086026
GE2025: Five one-term MPs step down as PAP seeks refreshed team, highest number in recent polls
20 PAP MPs have stepped down to make way for 32 new faces this election.
Five People's Action Party MPs are stepping down and not contesting in GE2025 after one term in office. From left: Ms Carrie Tan, Mr Derrick Goh, Mr Don Wee, Mr Fahmi Aliman and Ms Ng Ling Ling. (Photos: PAP)
SINGAPORE: At the close of nominations on Wednesday (Apr 23), 20 former Members of Parliament (MPs) from the People’s Action Party (PAP) were confirmed to not be contesting this election - and a quarter of them had served just one term.
The retiring MPs make up 24 per cent of the PAP’s 83 elected MPs at the start of the 14th term parliament.
While the PAP makes it a point to refresh its slate each election and backbenchers seldom serve more than four terms, records from previous elections indicate it is unusual for MPs to retire from politics after a single term.
Data compiled by CNA shows that in the last two elections, the PAP only had a single one-term MP retirement - the former Chua Chu Kang GRC MP Yee Chia Hsing, who was elected in 2015 and retired in 2020.
The party had 20 MPs retiring in the 2020 General Election, and 14 MPs stepping down in 2015.
This means that the PAP retired 24 per cent of its MPs ahead of GE2020, and 17.2 per cent of its MPs ahead of GE2015.
For this election, there were five one-term MPs stepping aside. Ten of the retiring MPs had served between two terms and four terms, while five retiring MPs had served more than four terms.
The longest serving is former Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean, who entered politics in 1992. He had been an MP in Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC since 1997, having been elected to represent the constituency six times.
Former Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat, who turned up at the nomination centre for East Coast and Punggol GRCs, also announced his retirement from politics in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
Mr Heng, a three-term MP, entered politics in 2011 in Tampines GRC. In 2020, he was the subject of a late-hour switch from Tampines to East Coast GRCs, but on Wednesday his name did not appear on any of the PAP’s slates.
Former Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen, who announced his retirement on Apr 18, had been in parliament for five terms, since 2006.
One GRC that has surprised observers with a completely new slate is Nee Soon where anchor minister K Shanmugam is the only familiar face. All other sitting MPs moved to a different ward or stepped down.
They will be replaced with four new candidates - Ms Goh Hanyan, Dr Syed Harun Alhabsyi, Ms Lee Huiying and Mr Jackson Lam.
Former Nee Soon MPs Carrie Tan and Derrick Goh (who served one term) and Mr Louis Ng (who served two terms) announced their retirements, while Associate Professor Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim has moved to contest in Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC.
Responding to a reporter’s questions about the number of new candidates in Nee Soon when they were introduced on Monday, Mr Shanmugam said: “I think there are 32 new candidates, as the Prime Minister has pointed out, and whether one term, two terms or more, you present the best slate that you can find.”
The PAP has also refreshed its slates in opposition-held wards Aljunied GRC, Sengkang GRC and Hougang SMC.
The only GRCs that have unchanged line-ups are Holland-Bukit Timah GRC and Mr Wong’s Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC.
Mr Teo Chee Hean, introducing candidates for Pasir Ris-Changi GRC on Monday, said that the PAP has always had a policy of self-renewal.
“This is quite key because you can see in several countries, where they have not self-renewed on a regular basis, in a systematic basis, that the leadership becomes weak and you have a gap,” he had said.
He added that this renewal is even more important during this “particularly turbulent time”.
Dr Ng Eng Hen, when he announced he was retiring, made similar remarks about the importance of renewing the party, pointing out that others before him retired to make way for himself when he entered politics.
“I think it’s a virtue that PAP forces itself to renew and that more senior politicians like myself, we emulate the examples that we saw when we came in as newbies,” he said.
-------------------
Last edited:
