Misleading ST headline: PAP has no right to call for elections

[Avantas]

The Straits Times article today, “Early polls ? Possible, though not imminent” contains a misleading headline beneath which reads “PAP wants to be ready to call elections quickly if financial crisis drags out, observers say”

Strictly speaking, the PAP has no right to call for elections as it is merely a political party. Only the government of the day has the power to dismiss Parliament and call for elections and it just so happen that the PAP is now the government of Singapore.

MM Lee Kuan Yew once boasted rather arrogantly he does not make apologies for the fact “the Singapore government is the PAP and the PAP is the government of Singapore.”

This unfortunate myth has been perpetuated for four decades by the mainstream media and various state organs to such an extent that the PAP party’s logo is regarded by many as a symbol of the nation.

Read full article here:

http://wayangparty.com/2008/11/12/misleading-st-headline-pap-has-no-right-to-call-for-elections/

 

[ahbengsong]

The Straits Times article today, “Early polls ? Possible, though not imminent” contains a misleading headline beneath which reads “PAP wants to be ready to call elections quickly if financial crisis drags out, observers say”
Strictly speaking, the PAP has no right to call for elections as it is merely a political party. Only the government of the day has the power to dismiss Parliament and call for elections and it just so happen that the PAP is now the government of Singapore.
MM Lee Kuan Yew once boasted rather arrogantly he does not make apologies for the fact “the Singapore government is the PAP and the PAP is the government of Singapore.”
This unfortunate myth has been perpetuated for four decades by the mainstream media and various state organs to such an extent that the PAP party’s logo is regarded by many as a symbol of the nation.

Read full article here:

http://wayangparty.com/2008/11/12/misleading-st-headline-pap-has-no-right-to-call-for-elections/

The pap has already taken for granted singapore is pap.. which is why the pap has a contingent in each national day... a shame indeed when national day is the people unity.. not a party celebration...

My fav lingo for the pap singapore... No pride, No dignity, No loyalty...

Thank you pap... for destroying the national identity which the pap old guards took generations to build... the devil has make reservations for all of you when your time is up...

 

[Avantas]

Sounds like North Korea to me.

 

[Ramseth]

The PAP does have the right to call for election as the ruling party. The ruling party can call for election, and the PAP is the ruling party. Calling for election can be decided during a PAP meeting, not necessarily during a cabinet meeting. Furthermore, this is a ruling party, not a ruling coalition. Anyway, just technicalities.

 

[Wobble]

If the opposition takes power, they too have the right? to use this tactic...

this is how the MIW won during the last crisis....seizing the opportunity during uncomfortable circumstances...

 

[lockeliberal]

Dear Ramseth

Even if the reporters were quoting observers , technically they are correct both commentators and reporters. The link below quotes the same story in a differing country by an opposition supportive newspaper. Again picking on little beans if anything


Locke

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1435208/Labour-Party-conference.html