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<!-- headline one : start --><TR>Ex-WP candidate plans to return for good
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Mr Gomez declined to say whether he would still be active in opposition politics.
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->MR JAMES Gomez, a Workers' Party (WP) candidate in the 2006 election, told reporters yesterday that he would return to Singapore for good at the end of this year.
But he declined to confirm if he would still be active in opposition politics.
He spoke to reporters yesterday on the sidelines of his convocation ceremony at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree by Australia's Monash University, a programme he enrolled in in 2004.
He left Singapore shortly after the May 2006 election to work as a researcher in a think tank in Sweden.
The 42-year-old was part of the WP team that contested in Aljunied GRC at the last polls. They garnered the highest share of votes - 43.9 per cent - among opposition GRC teams.
Mr Gomez himself was the subject of a controversy over his non-submission of an application form for a minority candidate certificate.
Asked if he would contest the next polls, due by 2011, he said: 'That's too far ahead but I'll be happy to discuss (with the party leaders) further.'
WP leaders could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Mr Gomez informed the media earlier in the week that he wished to speak about his research on the Internet and Singapore general election. This was the subject of his doctoral thesis.
After 3-1/2 years of work and analysis of the three general elections in 1997, 2001 and 2006, his conclusion was that the availability of alternative political views online had no impact on voting patterns. Currently on a fellowship at Japan's Keio University, he said he hoped to continue to do research in this area after his return to Singapore.
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<!-- headline one : start --><TR>Ex-WP candidate plans to return for good
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Li Xueying
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Mr Gomez declined to say whether he would still be active in opposition politics.
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->MR JAMES Gomez, a Workers' Party (WP) candidate in the 2006 election, told reporters yesterday that he would return to Singapore for good at the end of this year.
But he declined to confirm if he would still be active in opposition politics.
He spoke to reporters yesterday on the sidelines of his convocation ceremony at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree by Australia's Monash University, a programme he enrolled in in 2004.
He left Singapore shortly after the May 2006 election to work as a researcher in a think tank in Sweden.
The 42-year-old was part of the WP team that contested in Aljunied GRC at the last polls. They garnered the highest share of votes - 43.9 per cent - among opposition GRC teams.
Mr Gomez himself was the subject of a controversy over his non-submission of an application form for a minority candidate certificate.
Asked if he would contest the next polls, due by 2011, he said: 'That's too far ahead but I'll be happy to discuss (with the party leaders) further.'
WP leaders could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Mr Gomez informed the media earlier in the week that he wished to speak about his research on the Internet and Singapore general election. This was the subject of his doctoral thesis.
After 3-1/2 years of work and analysis of the three general elections in 1997, 2001 and 2006, his conclusion was that the availability of alternative political views online had no impact on voting patterns. Currently on a fellowship at Japan's Keio University, he said he hoped to continue to do research in this area after his return to Singapore.
