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Serious Opposition SPP party founder dies at 72, Chiam See Tong says loyal and true friend

EnBloc

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http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/opposition-party-leader-sin-kek-tong-dies
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Published: 10:40 PM, March 1, 2017

Updated: 10:57 PM, March 1, 2017



SINGAPORE — Longtime opposition figure Sin Kek Tong, who was also the founder of the Singapore People’s Party (SPP) back in 1994, died on Monday (Feb 27) at the age of 72.

Mr Sin leaves behind his wife, two daughters and a son, and three grandchildren.

Having started out as a member of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), Mr Sin’s involvement in opposition politics spanned two decades, where he contested in six successive General Elections.

His first taste of electoral contest was in 1988, where under the SDP banner, he went up against the People’s Action Party’s (PAP) Goh Choon Kang in Braddell Heights, receiving 41.2 per cent of the votes.

In the 1991 elections, he suffered a narrow defeat at the hands of Mr Goh again in the same ward, garnering 47.7 per cent of the votes.

A few years later, he left the SDP, following the footsteps of the party’s secretary-general at the time Chiam See Tong, who had walked out in 1993.

Before the 1997 General Election, it was Mr Sin who brought Mr Chiam into the SPP, and Mr Chiam became its secretary-general.

Mr Sin faced defeats when he contested in the 1997, 2001 and 2006 Elections. The 2011 General Election was to be his last — he lost in the single ward of Hong Kah to Dr Amy Khor from PAP, getting just 29.3 per cent of the votes.

The following year, he relinquished his position as party chairman to facilitate party renewal and because he had health issues.

One of Mr Sin’s two daughters, Ms Sin Harng Luh, said her father had been unwell. She described him as an “intellectual and philosophical” man. Mr Sin runs a small business and he works from home a lot, she said, and while campaigning during the election could be intense, “I have never seen him complain, not once”.

At Mr Sin’s wake on Wednesday night, opposition veteran Chiam and his wife Lina showed up to pay their respects. Mr Chiam said Mr Sin was a “loyal and faithful friend”.

Recounting the set-up of SPP in 1994, Mr Chiam said that Mr Sin had done this “by his own initiative” and had told him that there would be a place for him in SPP.

Mrs Chiam said that they last met Mr Sin for dinner sometime in 2014. She had asked him if he would like to play a role in SPP, but he declined, saying he was “tired” and wanted to take a backseat from politics.

Mr Desmond Lim, chairman of the Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) which was part of the SDA-SPP alliance that contested in Jalan Besar GRC in the 2001 elections, said that Mr Sin was a good public speaker who can give speeches off the cuff.

Mr Lim, who were former party colleagues with him in SPP, said: “He is also unafraid to voice his opinions even though they were different from those of his party’s colleagues.”

Another opposition leader, Mr Goh Meng Seng, secretary-general of the People’s Power Party (PPP), said that he admired Mr Sin’s perseverance to remain in politics despite having to endure successive electoral defeats. “Sad to say, it’s hard to find people like him among the current generation.”

On its Facebook page, the National Solidarity Party wrote that Mr Sin had been “an important figure in the Opposition’s struggle to bring about a free and democratic Singapore”. “He will be sorely missed by all of us,” the party said, as it sent condolences to his family and “friends in SPP”.
 

gongkia

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Re: Opposition SPP party founder dies at 72, Chiam See Tong says loyal and true frien

No mention regarding the cause of death...
 

EnBloc

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Re: Opposition SPP party founder dies at 72, Chiam See Tong says loyal and true frien

Yes the report neglected to mention this key fact.

He stepped down after 2011 GE and became badly ill.

He suffered from prostate cancer.
 

JohnTan

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Re: Opposition SPP party founder dies at 72, Chiam See Tong says loyal and true frien

Yes the report neglected to mention this key fact.

He stepped down after 2011 GE and became badly ill.

He suffered from prostate cancer.

Hardcore oppie cocksucking loser suffers scrotum cancer and dies at 72. Ah Gong, father of PAP, patron saint of translators, lived to a ripe old age of 92.

Karma is a bitch, especially if you bite the hands of the party that enabled you to live well in Singapore.
 
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