PAP team in Jalan Besar taking nothing for granted, says Josephine Teo

The PAP team contesting Jalan Besar GRC might have won with about two-thirds of the vote in the past two general elections, but the current team is taking nothing for granted for the May 3 election.

- Judith Tan

"We take every GE on its own terms. The past record, I think, is only important in so far as what we have been able to do for our residents," Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo said on April 20.

Mrs Teo, who is leading the PAP team in the group representation constituency again for this general election, added that voters there are entitled to assess the candidates on their merits, as well as their track record and plans for the area moving forward.

"We always take the past results as history, and going forward, you don't start off thinking that you have that already secured," Mrs Teo, 56, said in an interview at Ko-lam Ayer Bridge, near Bendemeer Primary School.

"You always start from the basis that you fight for every vote from the first one. And so it starts from zero, and you build from there."