SDP outlines areas of focus as it launches campaign for next GE
The Straits Times|May 12, 2024
Immigration, foreign labour among party’s issues for polls to be held by November 2025
Lee Li Ying
SDP outlines areas of focus as it launches campaign for next GE

The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) will focus on issues including immigration and foreign workers for the next general election, the party said on May 11 as it launched its election campaign.

At the campaign launch, which was held at the party's headquarters at WCEGA Tower in Bukit Batok Crescent, party secretary-general Chee Soon Juan and chairman Paul Tambyah laid out their plans for the coming election.

Singapore has to hold its next general election by November 2025. But some pundits say the election could come sooner rather than later, given that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will step down on May 15.

Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will take over then as the country's fourth prime minister.

On why the SDP is launching its campaign now, Professor Tambyah pointed out that it also had an early start for the 2020 General Election, launching its campaign in February 2019, or 17 months before Singaporeans went to the polls.

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