Please lar. You can always serve the residents in other ways. It is telling that Lim Swee Say is staying on, even after saying TWICE previously that he wants to step down. Why is he going back on his word? Well, take a look at the PAP team at East Coast GRC: LEE YI SHYAN LIM SIANG KEAT RAYMOND LIM SWEE SAY MOHD MALIKI BIN OSMAN TAN SOON NEO JESSICA Lee Yi Shyan is Senior Minister of State. And he is not the type which can carry the ground. More of a quiet bureaucrat. (Used to be in charge of the entrepreneurship portfolio until the govt abolished it). Raymond Lim is no longer a minister and no longer in Cabinet. He is a liability now because of his tenure as Transport Minister before Lui Tuck Yew. Youre left with Maliki Osman and Jessica Tan. Maliki is a Malay and in the thinking of the PAP, a minority-race candidate cannot carry the ground in a GRC. Jessica Tan. Well, most people do not even know who she is. And this is why Lim Swee Say is staying put. It is for a political reason. Nothing altruistic. After PM Lee booted out 9 Cabinet ministers post Ge-2011, he seems to be left with a shortage of experienced ministers to helm GRCs in the next elections.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:18:47 +0000
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