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http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id=581254
April 23, 2011 12:20 PM
Lee Kuan Yew Has No Special Role In Singapore's Upcoming General Election
SINGAPORE, April 23 (Bernama) -- Singapore's Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew will have no special role in the upcoming general election, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said.
"SM (Goh) will, as he says, be watching and giving us advice," China's Xinhua news agency quoted Lee as saying to the Straits Times in an interview carried by the newspaper on Saturday. "MM (Lee), I am sure, will be watching and giving us advice too."
Goh will have to concentrate on defending the Marine Parade group representation constituency he is leading, Lee said.
The Marine Parade constituency is expected to see a contest as the National Solidarity Party has said it will send a team there.
Singapore is expected to hold parliamentary elections on May 7. Voters will choose lawmakers at 15 group representation constituencies, where the parties will have to field several candidates as a team, and 12 single-member constituencies.
The Marine Parade group representation constituency was uncontested in the last general election in 2006 and Goh was active in two other constituencies that had been held by opposition lawmakers.
Goh had been a lawmaker since 1976.
Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has been in the legislature since 1955 and after the independence of Singapore in 1965.
-- BERNAMA
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id=581254
April 23, 2011 12:20 PM
Lee Kuan Yew Has No Special Role In Singapore's Upcoming General Election
SINGAPORE, April 23 (Bernama) -- Singapore's Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew will have no special role in the upcoming general election, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said.
"SM (Goh) will, as he says, be watching and giving us advice," China's Xinhua news agency quoted Lee as saying to the Straits Times in an interview carried by the newspaper on Saturday. "MM (Lee), I am sure, will be watching and giving us advice too."
Goh will have to concentrate on defending the Marine Parade group representation constituency he is leading, Lee said.
The Marine Parade constituency is expected to see a contest as the National Solidarity Party has said it will send a team there.
Singapore is expected to hold parliamentary elections on May 7. Voters will choose lawmakers at 15 group representation constituencies, where the parties will have to field several candidates as a team, and 12 single-member constituencies.
The Marine Parade group representation constituency was uncontested in the last general election in 2006 and Goh was active in two other constituencies that had been held by opposition lawmakers.
Goh had been a lawmaker since 1976.
Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has been in the legislature since 1955 and after the independence of Singapore in 1965.
-- BERNAMA
