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Realistic GE2025? 6 60 years of one party rule, will GE2025 end it or extend it? To be or not to be? Step up or slow down?

 Realistic GE2025? 6

60 years of one party rule, will GE2025 end it or extend it? To be or not to be? Step up or slow down?


Positive thinking: Singaporeans want opposition but not in their backyards.  With a super low birth rate, your backyards will soon be taken over by others.  Act now! 40% popular votes is not enough, we need to step up the change. 


Don’t let gerrymandering delay the awakening!

Don’t let vouchers, discounts blur you.

Don’t let PORMA silent you.

Don’t let affordable housing confuse you.


Even with lower than 50% popular votes, the PAP can still easily form the government.  In the 2013 Malaysian general election, Najib’s BN formed the government with 47% popular votes. While his opponent got 51%.


The worst case scenario is the 2024 election in the UK, where Labour only got 33.7%. (look like Tony Tan’s presidency win). But with a comfortable majority seats to form the Labour government. 

 

In Singapore, no one will expect the PAP’s vote share to go down to 50%, perhaps, not even 55%. So what’s the worry, backyard or not backyard, just vote for a non-PAP candidate. The honest reality is before and after GE 2025, the PAP will be the government.

The question is whether we want to end the one party rule.



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