looking at everything going on, LW seems to be scrambling and unprepared. At this late stage (assuming GE is in early May as current guess), he is getting too many senior serpents to resign so as to stand for election. None of them have been announced to have grassroots experience. There is also not a variety/ range of new candidates. The incumbent MPs also seem to be doing last minute wayang walkarounds and in force
all these point to a very unprepared GE by PAP. I also feel that LW probably lack the wide "network" of other "types" of candidates as he has been sheltered in the government for too long and had not widen the net of people he met. Either that or many had turned them down and these are the second/third choices