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From the hustings, both RP and DL have very unclear platforms. If there was anything there, it was "Let me be an alternative to WP" and the rest of the time, they were engaged in grieving over their internal problems with no clear attempts to argue why they were preferable.
KJ, despite his credentials, fell way short of expectations to come forth with a satisfactory campaign. The PAP candidate too focused on how he, as a candidate, could relate to the common people in the ward but it was a feeble attempt as the gap was too wide. He and his colleagues were left defending local issues that had gone wrong, avoiding national issues which would be a minefield for them.
Only the WP candidate had spent her time raising detailed issues of the day relating to the residents and defending negative politicking from her opponents.
It is right for a political party to gather candidates from different walks of life - some reflecting the issues faced by the common people by association while others with an intellectual bend looking at higher order aspirations. This was the strategy used by the PAP in the past but they have abandoned this recently and surrounded themselves with only one kind of candidates.
KJ, despite his credentials, fell way short of expectations to come forth with a satisfactory campaign. The PAP candidate too focused on how he, as a candidate, could relate to the common people in the ward but it was a feeble attempt as the gap was too wide. He and his colleagues were left defending local issues that had gone wrong, avoiding national issues which would be a minefield for them.
Only the WP candidate had spent her time raising detailed issues of the day relating to the residents and defending negative politicking from her opponents.
It is right for a political party to gather candidates from different walks of life - some reflecting the issues faced by the common people by association while others with an intellectual bend looking at higher order aspirations. This was the strategy used by the PAP in the past but they have abandoned this recently and surrounded themselves with only one kind of candidates.
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