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GE2025: SDP chief Chee Soon Juan questions quality of PAP’s present ministers, bringing up recent controversies and scandals

29 April 2025
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GE2025: SDP chief Chee Soon Juan questions quality of PAP’s present ministers, bringing up recent controversies and scandals
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SINGAPORE: While the first generation of ministers from the People’s Action Party (PAP) were “capable and competent”, the quality of present ministers “leaves very much to be desired,” Singapore Democratic Party’s chief Dr Chee Soon Juan said on Tuesday (Apr 29). During the SDP’s lunchtime rally speech at UOB Plaza, Dr Chee said that while he has “no interest in conducting PAP bashing,” he had to list out the “PAP scandals and screw-ups, only because our PAP ministers keep running the propaganda that they are exceptional and they don’t need an opposition to hold them accountable.” Dr Chee, who is standing in Sembawang West SMC, then spent a large part of his speech retracing past controversies around the PAP. These included former Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s handling of then Speaker Tan Chuan-Jin’s affair with a fellow PAP parliamentarian, two ministers’ rental of state bungalows at Ridout Road, the government’s use of TraceTogether data, and how it handled the disclosure of individuals’ full NRIC numbers on a government business portal. “My message is not that the PAP, this government, is 100 per cent bad, or that it is 100 per cent good. What I want to get across to you, is that the PAP is most certainly not the exceptional party that it says that it is,” Dr Chee said. He added that ministers need to be “humble” and acknowledge that the country needs an opposition, like the SDP, in parliament to make the nation stronger. “Most of all, acknowledge and accept the fact that the PAP needs meaningful opposition in parliament to govern Singapore better.” On salaries of ministers, a topic that has been largely discussed by opposition parties, Dr Chee said ministers in the country are being paid “such astronomical salaries”. He said that the reasoning was that if ministers are not paid “what they demand, then they might fall into the seductive hands of corruption”. “We must educate our ministers that corruption is bad and that if they are caught, there are consequences, period. We don’t pay them exorbitant salaries to not be corrupt. We elect our leaders based on their moral rectitude. Anything less, and we are better off without them,” he said. He urged the crowd that gathered on Tuesday afternoon to avoid giving “blind support” to the PAP. “Blind faith allows society into thinking that things are fine when they are clearly not, and worse, that there is no alternative to the PAP,” Dr Chee said. There were eight speakers at UOB Plaza on Tuesday afternoon, marking the first opposition lunchtime rally this election. It was the SDP’s sixth rally in as many days. The SDP is fielding 11 candidates in four constituencies this General Election – Bukit Panjang SMC, Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC, Sembawang GRC and Sembawang West SMC.

REJECT “FEARMONGERING”

SDP candidates who spoke at the rally also called on voters to reject the PAP’s “fearmongering” when they cast their ballot. “They tell you that if you vote for the opposition, Singapore will collapse. That if you bring in anyone other than the PAP to parliament, Singapore’s success story will crumble,” said SDP candidate Dr James Gomez. “When the PAP behaves this way, do not let fear guide your decision. Let your hopes, your needs and your future be the courage that guides your vote.” He took aim at Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s comments on Sunday that losing key ministers could place Singapore in “quite a lot of trouble”. “Such logic is unbelievable, but I can understand it comes from the PAP’s desperation. After all, losing ministers will be a problem for the PAP but not for us Singaporeans,” said Dr Gomez. He also described as “nonsense” Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s comments on Monday that having more opposition seats would “weaken the PAP team” and make it harder for them to serve Singaporeans effectively. “Effective government demands accountability, transparency and debate. It requires different voices in parliament, including SDP MPs, to challenge bad policies, policies that hurt Singaporeans,” said Dr Gomez. “If Lawrence Wong says that his team can only function when given unchecked power, then the problem is not with us Singaporeans, but with the…

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