GE2025: Talking Tampines with Workers' Party
Join your host - ST correspondent Natasha Ann Zachariah in ST's podcast at a new time slot.
The Workers' Party's Tampines GRC candidates – Mr Faisal Manap, Dr Ong Lue Ping and Mr Jimmy Tan – join host Natasha Ann Zachariah for the second live episode of The Usual Place.
They are going up against the incumbent PAP team that is led by Social and Family Development Minister Masagos Zulkifli, the National Solidarity Party and the People's Power Party.
With so many opposition parties vying for one GRC, we also find out the team's response to talk about the opposition vote being diluted. Also, how are the WP new faces - Dr Ong and Mr Tan - handling their first election campaign?
The Usual Place now moves from a weekly show to a half-hour daily livestream at noon from April 24 till May 1, a day before Cooling-off Day.
Natasha will share a wrap of what happened the night before, as well as what's to come in the next few days. There will be expert analysts featured.
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