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GE 2020 was a referendum on the 4G.
Singaporeans don’t want to have the next Prime Minister of Singapore chosen in a backroom and then foisted on them. GE 2020 was a way for Singaporeans to send key signals to the PAP about what they want and what they don’t.
Here is what Singaporeans are telling the PAP about the 4G.
It is difficult to see how Heng Swee Keat can take over as PM. Not with a 53.4% electoral margin in East Coast. There is no way to spin this. Singaporeans cannot confidently see our lives and the future of our country in Heng’s hands. This is a pity, because Heng is a fundamentally decent person who doesn’t come to politics with some of the worst instincts of PAP hardliners. He’s naturally a technocrat, not an attack dog.
This shouldn’t make Chan Chun Sing the default choice. Other things being equal, Chan’s showing in Tanjong Pagar is not much better than Heng’s. Although Chan’s vote share was numerically higher than Heng’s (63%), Tanjong Pagar is Lee Kuan Yew’s former seat in Parliament.
Chan will be haunted by his boast to party members that a crisis comes along periodically to “save the PAP”. Because of this, voters will forever remember him, fairly or not, as one of the architects of the Pandemic Election: willing to risk lives for political expediency.
- Remy Choo
Singaporeans don’t want to have the next Prime Minister of Singapore chosen in a backroom and then foisted on them. GE 2020 was a way for Singaporeans to send key signals to the PAP about what they want and what they don’t.
Here is what Singaporeans are telling the PAP about the 4G.
It is difficult to see how Heng Swee Keat can take over as PM. Not with a 53.4% electoral margin in East Coast. There is no way to spin this. Singaporeans cannot confidently see our lives and the future of our country in Heng’s hands. This is a pity, because Heng is a fundamentally decent person who doesn’t come to politics with some of the worst instincts of PAP hardliners. He’s naturally a technocrat, not an attack dog.
This shouldn’t make Chan Chun Sing the default choice. Other things being equal, Chan’s showing in Tanjong Pagar is not much better than Heng’s. Although Chan’s vote share was numerically higher than Heng’s (63%), Tanjong Pagar is Lee Kuan Yew’s former seat in Parliament.
Chan will be haunted by his boast to party members that a crisis comes along periodically to “save the PAP”. Because of this, voters will forever remember him, fairly or not, as one of the architects of the Pandemic Election: willing to risk lives for political expediency.
- Remy Choo
