Monday, April 4, 2011

OPINION: Polls Loom in Singapore, but don't expect much to change - Asia Sentinel

Asia Sentinel, 4 Apr 2011
A little under a month remains before Singapore heads to the polls in early May. As always in the strait-laced city state, the run-up to the polls will be a staid affair although for the first time in 23 years the small and fragmented opposition has been able to field candidates in all 84 constituencies.
There will be no US-style presidential debates. Nor will there any of the carnival atmospherics that typify the polls in Australia. The Speaker's Corner, Singapore's version of London's Hyde Park, and the only place in the city where opponents are allowed to speak their minds, was put off limits in mid-March by the government. Full story

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