General Elections (Nominations Day)

On the 27th of April, after my training, I straight away searched for the news for nominations day. Apparently, I was very surprised all GRCs and SMCs were contested except for the Tanjong Pagar GRC. It was the first time since independecent that almost all GRCs and all SMCs were contested in the elections. I also heard the news about George Yeo vs-ing the workers party A team where it is a strong fight and that George Yeo may lose his seat. I think from the nominations day, I think that PAP's stranglehold on Singapore is dropping as from the previous election. In the previous elections, almost half of all the GRCs were walkovers and thus the PAP kept their place as ruling government easily. Whereas, in this elections, Singapore is starting to mature up as more opposition parties are fighting with PAP with concrete plans on what to do after they win the elections, not like the previous elections where some of the opposition parties just opposed for the sake of opposing. In this elections, the ones who caught my attention were Nicole Seah and Tin Pei Ling, those were the 2 young stars of the general elections 2011. Tin Pei Ling had a negative image and Nicole Seah was well-liked by everyone. It is good to see that more young people are involved in politics as sooner or later when the older generation is gone, the younger generation would have to take over their place and that Singapore would be ruled by the younger generation in a matter of years.