The exchange between DPM Wong and Mr Low

The exchange between DPM Wong and Mr Low
05:55 AM Apr 27, 2010
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Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng: What the PAP is trying to do in this situation is not to have its cake and eat it. We're trying to make the cake bigger and give you a piece of it.

MP Low Thia Khiang: But don't forget your cake remains the same, because the elected members remain the same number. What you're trying to do is probably add some dressing, but the Workers' Party (WP) doesn't need that.

Mr Wong: No, we don't need the WP here to be the wallflower. The question is very simple: Is the WP going to take up the (NCMP) seats if we don't have enough (elected) Opposition members?

Mr Low: That's not a system which we will entrench as a political system, but in reality, this is the situation we have to face. It's the same as us opposing the GRC system; it doesn't mean that we don't campaign in the GRC.

Mr Wong: Mr Low can easily refuse to take up the seat, if unfortunately he happens to be - and we welcome his presence here - one of the best losing candidates.

Mr Low: I won't take up an NCMP seat ... That's the difference between the party and myself as a person ... And if my party insists I take it up, I probably will have to resign, that's all.

Mr Wong: Now we can understand Mr Low better. He's trying to open a back door.

PAP are playing TOP CEO Card as first class MP and Opposition in Singapore are third politician that suitable for NCMP. Mr Low is smarter than PAP. Hougang voters shall vote him as MP not NCMP. This is what he mean.

General Veers said:

Mr Wong: Now we can understand Mr Low better. He's trying to open a backdoor.

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Mr Low: Yes, the WP is only "trying" to open a back door, but PAP has so many MPs who have already "entered" the backdoor via GRCs. So Mr Wong, the pot should not call the kettle black.