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GE: SPP eyes Ang Mo Kio GRC

The Singapore People's Party (SPP) is making plans to contest in Ang Mo Kio GRC. The team is likely to be led by 23-year-old Alex Tan, a financial adviser.

The SPP is the first political party to declare its intention to contest in the GRC, which is helmed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Mr Tan said he has assembled a team for the six-member constituency, and is putting together its battle plans.

Details of the team will be revealed in due course, and he said the team will comprise new faces and experienced
politicians.

Sources said one possible candidate could be Mr Frankie Low, a new SPP member who was formerly from the Workers' Party.

Mr Tan said he has not conducted formal walkabouts at the GRC. He said he needs time to raise the election deposit - at least S$81,000, or S$13,500 for each candidate, based on the figure from the 2006 election.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a SPP walkabout at Bishan-Toa Payoh, Mr Tan concedes his team's chances are not high, but said his aim is to give Ang Mo Kio residents a chance to vote.

But he said the party's focus remains on fighting Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC.

In 2006, the Workers' Party fielded a young team in Ang Mo Kio GRC against the People's Action Party (PAP). The team, dubbed the "suicide squad", garnered 33.87 per cent of votes.

In an email later Saturday evening, SPP member Benjamin Pwee said the party's central executive committee (CEC) had earlier seriously considered but never approved Mr Alex Tan's proposal to the CEC to lead a team to contest in Ang Mo Kio GRC.

Meanwhile, the SPP team to contest Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC will be led by party secretary-general Chiam See Tong. 

Mr Chiam said the cost of living is one key issue the party will campaign on in the coming election. Others include ways to cope with the influx of foreign immigrants, the need for greater public accountability, the ageing population, public housing and public transport.

Mr Chiam highlighted accountability and transparency of government as his main concerns. 

"Most of the time members of the public don't know what the government is doing because there is not enough transparency, and unless we know what the government is doing, the government cannot perform its best," he said.

Mr Chiam also formally introduced the remaining two members of his five-member team for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC.

They are 48-year-old businessman Mohamad Hamim Aliyas and 35-year-old Jimmy Lee, a former government scholar.

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