For the upcoming general election, four out of five People’s Action Party ( PAP ) candidates will be newcomers in the Aljunied Group Representation Constituency ( GRC ) for the first time.
On Sunday ( Apr 13 ), the ruling party unveiled its slate for the opposition-held ward, which features an almost entirely new lineup from its 2020 team.
Just Serangoon tree chair Chan Hui Yuh, 48, from the quintet, stood in the final round.
The other members are oral surgeon Ali Abdul Aziz, 37, urban planning consultant Daniel Liu, 40, and organization director Adrian Ang, 41.
Ms. Chan stated that they will concentrate on addressing the issues facing elderly, which will eventually have a trickle-on effect on the well-being of their people and the general area.
She then stated that it was “time” for change and that it has been 14 times since Aljunied GRC people have had a PAP voice in parliament.
Education Minister Chan Chun Sing and former cabinet minister Lim Boon Heng, who once led the PAP Aljunied group and serves as its advisor, were also present at Sunday’s release.
Mr. Chan, who is the PAP’s associate secretary-general, introduced the Aljunied stone. He claimed that the group’s existence in the opposition-held neighborhoods is no criticism there but rather a proposition of policies.
He added that the vote is about casting ballots for people who can govern worldwide, take care of local residents, and even reflect Singapore also abroad.
The most recent political image review altered Aljunied GRC’s limitations for the first time since 2011, making it the first GRC to be won by the criticism.
For the upcoming vote, Aljunied GRC did relocate three of its nearly 4, 000 voter-dominant regions to Tampines GRC.
The Workers ‘ Party ( WP ) won the most votes to date in a GRC by winning 59.95 % of the vote in the previous contest in 2020. This is the highest margin to date for the WP to win a GRC.
NEW SYSTEMS
The ruling celebration may field a team of four political visitors for the upcoming elections. They are one of more than 30 fresh eyes the PAP has cast their hands in subsequent memory for GE2025, which is its largest slate of new faces.
In August of last year, Mr. Jagathishwaran Rajo assumed the role of the group’s Eunos tree chair.
Before moving to Aljunied, he was a prominent community head in the Zhenghua hospital of Holland-Bukit Timah GRC for 16 decades. He served as its unit minister.
In April of last year, he was appointed the assistant director of the NTUC’s Freelancers and Self-Employed Unit ( UFSE ) and the executive secretary of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore Staff Union ( IRASSU).
Prior to that, he worked as the Ministry of Trade and Industry’s top assistant director in the Future Economy Planning Office during a two-year assignment.
The PAP changed tree chairmen three times in the district in February of this year.
The Paya Lebar tree was led by Mr. Daniel Liu, who is also the managing director of Morrow Architects and Planners and Morrow Intelligence’s senior director of urban planning information analysis.
He was formerly the Nee Quickly East ward’s president of the Citizens ‘ Consultative Committee.
The Bedok Reservoir-Punggol tree was taken over by Dr. Adrian Ang, the director of Chye Thiam Maintenance, a hospital and economic management firm.
He was formerly the Toa Payoh West-Thomson section of Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC’s Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat’s.
Dr. Faisal Abdul Aziz, a medical doctor who is a medical director at Nuffield Holdings, took over as president in Kaki Bukit.
He had previously organized dialogues for the Young PAP, the group’s children wing, and the group’s Malay Affairs Bureau, and had been volunteering with the tree since 2015.
Following Mr. Leon Perera’s departure from the latest parliament, the quintet may face an incumbent WP team that is looking for a second member.
FIRST OPPOSITION-HELD GRC
Aljunied GRC defeated a PAP group that included foreign affairs minister George Yeo and stranger Ong Ye Kung, who is already secretary for health, in the first election that the WP won.
It won the second opposition party to win a GRC since the system’s introduction in 1988, with 54.72 percent of the seats secured.
Low Thia Khiang, who had left his long-held Hougang to fight the GRC, was in charge of the team.
Pritam Singh, the existing leader of the opposition, Sylvia Lim, Mr. Faisal Abdul Manap, and Chen Show Mao, a stranger, made up the lineup.
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