Written by Our Correspondent
In a sign that the next election will probably be called
sometime this year, the PAP-controlled Elections Department told
Straits Times yesterday that “some 25,000 public servants have been
trained in preparation for the next general election.”
Since October 2008, the Elections Department had sent out
letters to civil servants informing them to attend the training
sessions which involves workshops, E-learnings and simulated
exercises on the electoral processes.
During a parliamentary session last month Deputy Prime Minister
Wong Kan Seng said the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee had
not convened yet and it takes two to four months for it to complete
its electoral boundaries report.
He was responding to a question by NCMP Sylvia Lim on when the
electoral boundaries would be revealed.
The PAP has the knack of announcing the electoral boundaries
only in the last minute on the eve of the polls to thwart the plans
of the opposition parties.
Single wards and even GRCs can “vanish” into thin air suddenly
without warning and get “absorbed” into neighboring wards.
For example, Singapore People Party’s Chairman Sin Kek Tong
garnered a respectable 47.1 percent of the votes at the single seat
of Braddell Hill during the 1991 general elections.
He had been actively working the ground there for six years till
it was announced a month before the 2007 general election that
Braddell Hill had been “absorbed” into Marine Parade GRC.
The same case happened to Eunos GRC which was only narrowly won
by the PAP in the 1988 and 1991 elections. It was literally “wiped
off” from the electoral map in subsequent elections.
Though it is not known when the next election will be, some
predicted that it may be held either in the June or December school
holidays.
With public unhappiness against the PAP’s disastrous liberal
immigration and pro-foreigner policies at an all time high, it is
likely to lose more seats in the next election including
GRCs.
The PAP has been trying hard to include as many new citizens on
the electoral register, having updated it twice in the last 12
months alone.
According to figures from the Home Affairs Ministries, there are
about 60,000 new citizens in the last three years who will form an
increasingly influential voting bloc.
Not surprisingly, the PAP has gone out of the way to court the
new citizens including splurging a massive $10-million dollar
Community Integration Fund to make them feel welcomed in
Singapore.
The next general election is the last time for native
Singaporeans to make themselves heard after which they will be
completely drowned out by the immigrants whom the PAP is actively
importing to replace them in order to perpetuate its political
hegemony forever.
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