Not everything's clean and pretty

[MarrickG]

SINGAPORE - It seems like not everything is clean and pretty in Singapore's General Elections.

Midway through the parties' election campaigning, acts of vandalism have hit their election posters and vehicles.

The Bedok Reservoir-Punggol Branch of the People's Action Party, under Aljunied GRC, lodged a police report yesterday after one of its vehicles was found vandalised. It had a long streak of paint alongside the vehicle.

Its banners were also defaced with black paint.

The New Paper reported George Yeo's election agent, Ms Tan Bee Lan, as saying that 29 of PAP's posters had been vandalised. 30 of them went missing as well.

The National Solidarity Party also found its posters torn down.

Meanwhile, pictures of the vandalised posters have found their way online. Parties have posted these photos on their respective pages on social networking website Facebook, attracting a flurry of comments by netizens.

Other than vandalism, verbal jibes have also broken out at rallies.

The National Solidary Party's Nicole Seah said this week that party members had been prevented from using the public toilets at Mountbatten Field by the community club staff.

The People's Association later issued a statement to clarify that this was not true and that all members of public were allowed to use the toilets.

NSP members were only asked to remove their party flags and badges before they were allowed in, the association said.