PSP candidates challenge incumbent PAP team to debate

The opposition PSP team contesting West Coast-Jurong West GRC on April 23 challenged the incumbent PAP team led by Minister for National Development Desmond Lee to a debate on national policies.

- Chin Hui Shan

This invitation to a debate was extended in speeches delivered by three PSP members—its chief Leong Mun Wai, first vice-chair Hazel Poa and Mr Sumarleki Amjah—at the Nan Hua High School nomination centre, after the party's candidacy in the GRC was confirmed.

"We would like to invite minister Desmond Lee and his team to debate on policies. Let the voters decide who has better ideas," Mr Leong said in his address to the crowd.

Later, at a separate media interview held at the Block 505 Jurong West Market & Food Centre, Mr Leong elaborated on why the party had issued this challenge.

"For a healthy election, we must debate policies, we don't (just) criticise one another. There must be good policies, and we think that we have put up a very strong manifesto," he said.

Mr Leong added that he and Ms Poa, who are both Non-Constituency MPs, have over the past five years suggested alternative policies in Parliament to improve the lives and livelihoods of Singaporeans.