The gov intend to have a cooling period for polling day. Something that some foreign countries been doing. Singapore is such a small country, cooling period is such a unnecessary. There are other areas that need changes. Drop the GRC back to single seats. If your candidates is good, he will make it. Using GRC to stand next to veteran candidates just doesn't seems to be the way for people to choose. Are you saying they will go for the group as there is one or two veterans there while the oppositions are all new guys that hasn't been on the road yet? It is such absurd and cowardly to be hiding behind veterans. Strong oppositions such as the two opposition wards are an example, unless the ruling party put in a ministerial candidate to going against the opposition stronghold. Or they could choose the easy way out by merging the current opposition ward into a GRC. They did it before so it could happen again. But then again, what most people feel is that most citizens have never vote at all. Being a citizen, they do not get a chance to cast their vote, because the place they lives have been dropped by the oppositions. The respond would be there is no one worthy to take on the GRCs. If the oppositions are not given a chance on the field they will always be a newbie. Even if they have the people, they need to come up with a sum for being a candidate. So the cooling period is nothing as compare to not being able to vote. Scrape the GRC unless you have no confident on your own people.
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/12/pm-lee-proposes-24-hour-cooling-off-period-before-polling-day/
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