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Opposition meeting to discuss GE strategy postponed to Monday

SINGAPORE — The meeting among opposition parties to negotiate where each will field candidates for the coming elections has been postponed to Monday instead, National Solidarity Party’s (NSP) acting secretary-general Hazel Poa said yesterday.

SINGAPORE — The meeting among opposition parties to negotiate where each will field candidates for the coming elections has been postponed to Monday instead, National Solidarity Party’s (NSP) acting secretary-general Hazel Poa said yesterday.

Two opposition parties — Reform Party and the Singapore Democratic Alliance — had earlier called for the meeting, originally scheduled for tomorrow evening, to be moved, partly because some of their key party members would be unavailable then.

The NSP had called for the meeting after the past weekend saw political parties moving swiftly to stake claims on the constituencies they wished to contest, following the release of the report on the redrawn electoral boundaries last Friday. So far, 12 out of the 29 constituencies to be filled have attracted the attention of more than one contender to the incumbents.

Meanwhile, Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) chief Chee Soon Juan has set up a blog. In his first entry on Tuesday, Dr Chee, who is eligible to contest elections for the first time since 2001, spoke out against what he described as “verbal abuse” directed at him by government leaders over the years.

He also charged that the media compounded this by their “sustained amplification” of these comments, as well as their coverage on him. Dr Chee called on all parties to “leave behind the old politics of personal hatred, vindictiveness and destruction”.

Last Sunday, People’s Action Party organising secretary and Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen called for “(fewer) personal attacks, but more serious debate” during the campaigning period.

Separately, SDP also posted on its Facebook page yesterday 10 things the party will fight for, including housing affordability, minimum wage for low-income workers and better work-life balance.

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