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On 9 November 2019, Progress Singapore Party began its second island-wide walkabout. About 220 party members and volunteers took buses and trains to travel around the island. [18] On 12 January 2020, the party had their second door-to-door house visits at West Coast GRC which was led by Tan and joined by more than 200 members and volunteers ...
A group of candidates intending to contest an election in a GRC must all be members of the same political party, or a group of independent candidates. The voting age in Singapore is 21 years. Elections are conducted by the Elections Department (ELD), a department under the Prime Minister's Office. [5]
In 2023, Progress Singapore Party's (PSP) non-constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP), Hazel Poa, raised a private member’s motion to abolish GRC, citing outcomes where candidates ride on the coattails of more established teammates, reduced voters’ choice over election results. [19]
People's Action Party, Progress Singapore Party PAP incumbent candidate and Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam , who is defending his seat at Nee Soon GRC, claimed that the PSP team contesting Nee Soon GRC was a "half-hearted" attempt, adding that PSP had been "offering to trade Nee Soon for some other constituency" with RP.
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The party was founded on 26 May 2020 by members of the Progress Singapore Party (PSP) who had resigned from the PSP. Although the average processing time for a registration application is two months, [ 1 ] RDU received approval on 15 June 2020, three weeks after application, in what appeared to be an expedited process.
Lee is estranged from his brother over the 38 Oxley Road dispute and had previously endorsed the Progress Singapore Party in the 2020 Singaporean general election. During a telephone interview with Bloomberg in March 2023, Lee said, "There is a view that depending on who they (the People's Action Party ) float, if I were to run they would be in ...
Amongst the oldest parties, the Malay Union, traced its history back to 14 May 1926, was initially a non-political association as the party only participated in the 1955 election. The Progressive Party and Labour Party, both established in the late 1940s, were some of the pioneering local establishments, with the PP the only party to contest in ...