Singapore - Singapore Tuesday dissolved Parliament and set may 7 as the date for the general election for the ruling party expected to face its toughest political challenge in decades.
MUNSHI Ahmed/Bloomberg News Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, whose Partei 82 has 84 seats in the last elections, will the voters again face.The people's action party, led by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, holds a dominant grip makes, but analysts say rising dissatisfaction with the bread and butter issues a historically weak opposition, boost could it more seats in the 87 legislative members.
In the last elections in May 2006, the governing party of 82 won 84 seats, with 67% of the vote. This year, revisions to elections boundaries mean that three other members in this survey will be elected.
Opposition parties say that they plan to all seats, competition would be the unprecedented.
"The opposition parties in this election on a much firmer footing, with a much wider range of available information, thanks to social media, and therefore are the voters [it] far more sure that the result", said Vincent Wijeysingha, Assistant Treasurer of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party. "People want to be heard." "People want to have their concerns and their alternative ideas stock in the public domain."
No one expects that the opposition to win, or even seriously challenge the people's action party's grip makes. But a stronger opposition towards more pluralism and liberalisation is a further step in Singapore slowly.
Elections are required by February 2012, according to the Constitution, and political observers say the ruling party wants to use the still strong economy and keep a vote before inflation is a major problem.
The ruling PAP - looking for ways to attract younger voters and maintain their relevance - brings new and younger candidates. Founded by former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, it has controlled in 1965 Parliament since Singapore's independence, and his legislators held all seats in the legislature until 1981.
The party is credited with creating a financial Dynamo on this small, resource-poor island: the economy will grow expected 4% to 6% this year after surging 14.5% in 2010.
But the Government faces criticism for Singapore's dependence on foreign workers, as well as for stagnant wages mounting, high inflation and an income is divide one of the largest among the developed countries - and continues to grow.
Government data show that foreigners are more than a quarter of Singapore's 5.1 million people, from 19% in the year 2000. According to the United Nations, which where NULL is City-State Gini coefficient - a measure of income inequality complete equality and reflects a maximum inequality - 0.425 for 2000-2010 was the second highest among 42 Nations with "very high human development".
Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister, acknowledged Monday that inflation provide means "the ground may not be sweet" for the ruling party of this time.
"In this environment it is much more difficult to sell for the incumbent a" CIMB Economist song Seng Wun said. "It is to play enough of a wave of discontent of the opposition."
Singapore's often fragmented opposition is also better prepared, this tail winds, horseback riding, which swelled their ranks with candidates including top corporate lawyer, academics and former officials.
In four of the last nine elections half of the seats contested the opposition less than. For this election although no opposition party is strong enough, to all seats by itself, competition opposition leader agreed last month together all challenge them.
The Labour Party, which won a seat in 2006, is probably the most candidates, probably more than 20 field. The national solidarity party, Singapore social democratic party, reform party, and Singapore is people's Party also seats competition.
"This will be the most competitive election since independence, with the strongest opposition slate in Singapore's history,", said Cherian George, Associate Professor media and politics in the city state of Nanyang Technological University to study. "No one, including the PAP, is surprised, when they dipped below the 66.6% enjoyed share of the vote the ruling party in the last elections."
The public woo, has the Government unroll populist policies including stricter immigration rules, property-price cooling measures and one-off budget handouts value of 3.2 Singapore billion (US$ 2.6 billion) for low-income residents. In his manifesto published Sunday the PAP promised more jobs, higher incomes and more investment in education and infrastructure.
Keeps the former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who now control cabinets is title of Minister mentor and his son the current Prime Minister, has said he will compete in this election. If members of Parliament elected, he would be 92 years at the end of the term of Office at the age of five. But the PAP brings in 24 new candidates.
Regardless of the outcome of the vote Parliament, aircraft of constitutional changes occur at least nine opposition politicians passed last year. If less than nine are elected, will the balance be drawn from the defeated opposition candidate with the best results. But the added opposition parliamentarians "Nonconstituency members," would be with limited voting rights.
Opposition parties are other significant obstacles, including Singapore's use of a system in which most members of Parliament, in teams rather than individually be elected.
In addition, PAP have sued successfully opposition politicians for libel to leaders in the past. PAP leaders say they welcome debate and file complaints only to their reputation to protect.
没有评论:
发表评论