Kit Sun Cheah

Tag: Elections

  • Pandemic Election Shifts Singapore to the Left

    61.24 percent. The People’s Action Party won merely 61.24 percent of the popular vote in the 2020 elections. This is a sharp fall from securing 69.9 percent of the vote in 2015, much closer to 2011’s result of 60.14. The PAP won 83 out of 93 seats in Parliament, with the other 10 seats going…

  • Testimony Against Kumaran Pillai of the Progress Singapore Party

    The Progress Singapore Party intends to field Mr. Kumaran Pillai in the upcoming General Elections. I must speak out against him. In my experience, he does not possess the values needed to be a leader and a servant of the people. In late 2013, I first met Mr. Pillai to discuss the possibility of contributing…

  • Singapore’s Pandemic Election

    As Singapore enters a lockdown that the authorities won’t call a lockdown, one burning question remains: when will the government call for an election? Next week, the government will table a bill to enable elections during the Covid-19 outbreak. With Parliament dominated by the People’s Action Party, the Bill is practically guaranteed to pass. The…

  • Singapore's Opposition Needs to Step Up Now

    The elections are coming, and Singapore’s opposition parties need to think about branding, election strategy, candidate selection and coalition-building.

  • Singapore's politics of personality

    Singapore’s opposition parties need to become political parties, not personality parties.

  • Why your vote doesn't matter

    A cluster of votes is more significant than a single vote.