Workers' Party's
Png Eng Huat, who won the by-election in the single member
constituency over People’s Action Party candidate Desmond Choo on
Saturday, is now expected to make good on his promises.
(Yahoo! …more
It’s just the beginning of the road
for the Workers’ Party’s Png Eng Huat in Hougang.
Based on Yahoo! Singapore’s interview with some residents, Png,
who won the by-election in the single
member constituency over People’s Action
Party candidate Desmond Choo on Saturday, is now
expected to make good on his promises.
Jeffrey Lai, a 46-year-old business development manager, noted that
Png is still a “relatively new man” in Hougang, and that the Member
of Parliament-elect has to do a lot more to prove his credibility
and win the hearts of the residents in the next four years.
22-year-old Loh Hui Min, who works as a coordinator, echoed
Jeffrey’s sentiment. She said, “What Png needs to do now is to
stick to what he mentioned in his rallies – creating a first world government,
conducting upgrading works where possible and representing the
marginalised people in Hougang and Singapore.”
Most residents that Yahoo! spoke to were not surprised that Png
won, although some expected it to be a closer fight.
“It is quite expected that the Workers’ Party would win. From the
results, it is evident that the residents strongly want the WP to
have a bigger voice in Parliament,” Eileen Yeo, a supervisor in her
50s said.
“I expected the winning margin to be much smaller, although I’m not
surprised that the WP won, said Pamy Tan, a 23-year-old writer. “At
the national level, Png’s win means the next step in democracy. At
the ward level, it means that the people really love the way WP has
been running the ward if not they would not have voted Png
in.”
Png garnered 62.09 per cent of the total votes cast while Choo got
37.91 per cent, almost three percentage points better than the
share he got in the general elections in May last year. At that
time Choo was up against then WP member Yaw Shin Leong, whose expulsion from the opposition party in
February over alleged marital indiscretions triggered the
by-election.
Some observers feared that confidence in the Workers’ Party would
be affected by the scandal and questions over Png’s honesty
over whether he considered a
Non-Constituency Member of Parliament seat.
At least one resident expressed disappointment with the results.
Irene Teng, a 54-year-old senior designer in a construction firm
said, “There has not been much change in Hougang and I was hoping
for a change. Maybe I’ll wait for the next election.”
Please, EVEN the coffeeshop peoples reaches 15,000 people.
Police come lo. Put tear gas and arrest us. See 2016 PAP will drop
to the bottompit for their vote. My uncles, Aunties, cousins all
singaporean, all vote for opposition from that time. PAP
Finsih.
