Singapore Elections

I'm quite annoyed that I can't vote for my first election!!
As I'm overseas, but in UK the only polling station is in London.
And I won't be there on the 7 May ( I think ).

I've heard that if you don't vote for your first election, you'll be disqualified for future voting opportunities, as it's compulsory. Yet, I heard that for Singaporeans overseas at the time of the voting are the exceptions.
But, there is a polling station in UK, London.

I'm just really confused and I hope that I'm not disqualified for future elections.

82 of 87 seats are contested!

Though I'm in the UK, but I've been reading up alot on the campaigns going on in Singapore. I've read articles and watched videos.

" Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has warned Singaporeans, especially those in Aljunied GRC, they will "pay a price, the hard way" if they vote for the Opposition.

Speaking to reporters during a visit to Tampines on Friday night, MM Lee said, "If they (Aljunied voters) choose (the opposition), then I say, good luck to them. They have five years to ruminate and to regret what they did. And I have no doubts they will regret it."

The 87-year-old warned voters they would have to live with the choice they make come Polling Day on Saturday.

"It may well happen that they win, in which case the people of Aljunied live with the results," he was quoted as saying on The Straits Times.

"The only way people learn is when they have to pay a price. From time to time we may lose, and the voters pay the price, " he said.

He further cautioned, "If Singaporeans are that fickle, they will have to pay a price, the hard way."

He highlighted the example of opposition-held ward Hougang where, "If you have the wrong government, your property prices go right down. Ask why in Hougang the property is not as high as their neighbours."

The high-powered 'A' team from the Workers's Party contesting the Aljunied hotspot consists of former Hougang MP Low Thia Khiang, former NCMP Sylvia Lim, the party's "star catch" Chen Show Mao as well as family counsellor Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap and post-graduate law student Pritam Singh.

They will be up against the incumbent PAP team fronted by Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Lim Hwee Hua, Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Zainul Abidin Rasheed, Madam Cynthia Phua and new face Ong Ye Kung, an assistant secretary-general of NTUC .

MM Lee also urged Aljunied voters to look at the track record of the different candidates.

"Do you want a capable team that can look after your interests, or do you want a team with little track record?" he said.

"At the end of the day, if you are in Aljunied, ask yourself: Do you want one MP, one Non-Constituency MP, one celebrity who has been away 30 years, and two unknowns to look after you?"

Or, he asked if voters would prefer two ministers, one potential Parliament Secretary, one potential Speaker of Parliament and one grassroots MP?

Cautioning voters against "trying their luck" when the value of their property and livelihood was on the line, MM Lee said, "Just think. Five years, they're in charge of your property and your lives... If you like to try your luck, well good luck to you. But I guarantee you, you will not do better than the PAP candidates."

MM Lee, whose own Tanjong Pagar GRC went uncontested, went on to question the WP slogan of "Towards A First World Parliament."

"Do you want a first world government or you want a first world opposition?" he asked.

"And is this a first world opposition? Can they compare themselves to the senators in the US congress?... If you want a third world or even a second world opposition to come and create a bit of excitement, well that's your choice," he said.

"But I do not consider them a first world opposition. I do not want to degrade them but you just look at their track record." "

Credits to : http://sg.news.yahoo.com/aljunied-voters-will-regret-choosing-wp--mm-lee.html


I shaked my head as I read this article. Does he even realise what he's saying?? Do you think you can manipulate the voters by threatening them? Nah-ah I don't think so. However, threatening them would only make them think less of you and run the other direction. It proves to us anti-PAP ones what you're capable of. Is it only me? Or do you guys think that his speech just made PAP look even worse than it is already? So we will 'pay the price' if we don't vote for you huh? What little respect I had for you has deminished totally! Arrogance will get you nowhere!!!!!!

And seriously what is it about second world, third world?? It's been reported on the news that Singapore's MPs are one of the highest paid people in the world! EVEN MORE THAN PRESIDENTS! Where did you get all those money from?! From us I presume!!!

Is it just purely a coincidence that they are being so generous all of a sudden? The Grow and Share Package just before the General Elections? HMMMMM..............
Don't try to bribe us with money! It doesn't work that way! That few hundred dollars were ours to begin with.

PAP has always brushed aside the citizen's voice. Our cries for change are not heard and acted upon!

This is probably the most important election since independence day!
Ask ourselves, do we want a change in our government?

I say, vote for the oppositions! ( also not vote blindly for the oppositions, please do your homework. Workers party is one of them you should definitely vote for! )

If the opposition win this time round, I'm pretty sure there WILL BE BIG CHANGES MADE! I definitely can't wait for results!

Stand up for ourselves, Singaporeans! Don't vote for PAP!!!

That's my piece said. Back to my dissertation. I might post something about the opposition tomorrow.

Toodles!

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