Tampines GRC PPP's Goh Meng Seng says voters need to 'teach PAP a good lesson'

The PAP is holding voters hostage with the group representation constituency system, and the loss of "more ministers" in this election may nudge the ruling party to revamp this system, Mr Goh Meng Seng said on May 1.

- David Sun

"Do not be gaslit by their formula: 'Oh I lose a few ministers, I cannot work,'" said the People's Power Party (PPP) chief at a rally in Tampines.

"It is their own doing because they use the GRC system." Prime Minister Lawrence Wong had said during this election campaign that losing ministers would weaken the Government, urging voters to think about Singapore's future.

Mr Goh said: "When (the GRC system) fails and it threatens their position, they turn around and tell you... 'You cannot vote against me or else we die, you die'. Is that a responsible government?"

While Mr Goh acknowledged that "PAP is still good in a certain sense", he said that "we need to teach the PAP a good lesson in politics", so that the ruling party may adjust the GRC system to "proportional representation".

He also used PAP's Tampines GRC candidate David Neo to illustrate the risk of groupthink within the Government, saying that the PAP has a tendency to recruit candidates from the civil service.