Don’t inflame sensitive issues or use domestic politics to divide S’pore: PM Wong at first PAP rally
Whatever the differences, “we are all Singaporeans first and foremost”, said PM Lawrence Wong.ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
Do not inflame sensitive issues or use domestic politics to divide Singaporeans, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said to opposition parties in his first rally speech as head of government.
Whatever the differences, “we are all Singaporeans first and foremost”, he said.
There will be many external forces that will pull the population in different directions – such as the war in Europe and the war in Gaza in the Middle East – and people will have differing views about these global developments.
“Under normal circumstances, we can discuss them, and we can forge a national consensus, but in the heat of an election campaign, it is easy for issues to get stirred up.
“If we are not careful, this can be exploited, and we will end up pitting Singaporeans one against another, we will end up dividing and weakening us,” said PM Wong.
“Let’s make sure that in everything we do, we always uphold multiracial politics. Do not inflame sensitive issues... There must be unity,” he said on the second day of the hustings.