People’s Power Party intends to contest Choa Chu Kang GRC

SINGAPORE — The People’s Power Party, led by former National Solidarity Party secretary-general Goh Meng Seng, said this morning (Aug 2) that it intends to contest Choa Chu Kang Group Representation Constituency in this coming election.

Announcing this during a walkabout at Lot 1 shopping centre, Mr Goh said the line-up of potential candidates has been finalised. His party also wants to contest a Single Member Constituency, but further details will be shared only after the meeting among opposition parties slated to take place tomorrow.

The NSP contested in Choa Chu Kang GRC in the 2011 General Election and lost to the People’s Action Party, which clinched 61.2 per cent of the votes.

Mr Goh said today that the western parts of Singapore were ripe for contesting and that he was familiar with the area, given that his former party contested there in the last polls.

He added that he would leave the way clear for NSP to contest in MacPherson and Tampines, saying that he recognised the NSP’s hard work there at the last polls. As for Fengshan, he said he will leave it to the Workers’ Party.

Mr Goh let on that his strategy will differ from the one in 2011, when the NSP fielded many candidates because a number of areas in 2006 were uncontested. He said: “Now we have a lot of players, a lot of good candidates. Our strategy will change. We’ll try to avoid three-cornered fights. We don’t believe that it’s a right time for a multi-cornered fight.”