#ge2025 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ge2025, aggregated by home.social.
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Thanks to Prospect Foundation for inviting me to reflect on Singapore’s external relations following the 2025 general elections. Please follow the link below to read the article.
Terima kasih Yayasan Prospek untuk mengundang saya direnung tentang hubungan luar Singapura setelah pilihan raya tahun 2025. Sila mengikuti paut di bawah untuk membaca artikelnya.
感謝遠景基金會邀稿，讓我對2025年大選後的外交關係做一些反思。請點擊以下鏈接閱讀文章。
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Keir Starmer wants a “clean break” from Labour’s past on immigration.
Translation: abandon values of solidarity, equality & internationalism.
We don’t need a clean break — we need a clean conscience.
#Labour #Starmer #ProgressivePolitics #GE2025 #NotInMyName
https://www.politico.eu/article/anti-farage-yvette-cooper-vs-reform-uk/ -
Early results from Singapore elections show a strong mandate for the ruling party, while the leading opposition party WP will likely hold on to the seats it’s got.
There is a real climate of fear now (tariffs will impact us greatly, and we feel very stuck between the U.S. and China on many aspects). Not surprised that people are going for the ‘safety’ of the only thing most of us have ever known. Despite the rhetoric of the Shut It All Down, no more immigration people, nobody really wants.. that.
Other than the WP and PSP, there aren’t any parties I could in good conscience vote for. I hope that WP will continue to expand and grow.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/ge2025-live-results-singapore-general-election
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This is the best reading list for Singapore politics today
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Regardless of your polices/party preference - please go and vote for your future.
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I have a lot of unresolved personal vendetta against some of the worst members of the Singapore opposition parties, and I am wishing them all the worst. Especially all the homophobes. God so many homophones
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A big thank you to those who are working in the polling stations for #GE2025 I have voted and it was a seamless experience within 5 minutes in #Singapore
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One of the reasons I care deeply about exercising my vote in the upcoming Singapore elections:
While I don’t consider myself a deeply patriotic person, I am deeply connected to Singapore. I have deep roots there. I know every nook and cranny of the land. I’ve lived and loved across the island. I love and hate it in equal parts.
With distance, I note that while I feel increasingly detached from it on the day to day level: in that I have not, in a decade or more, been a person from there who struggles with train breakdowns or increase in prices, but I care for it on a big picture level.
My leading political theory for Singapore in the ‘20s and beyond: I believe the Chinese state has increasing designs on Singapore as a vassal state. For more than a decade they’ve been throwing out the ideas of ‘y’all Chinese anyway’ (not true); seeded all kinds of spies, etc.
I’m interested, on a geopolitical level, in what it means to be a Singapore citizen. Exercising my right to vote in my own sovereign nation, feels important to me in that context. I think this is the single biggest existential crisis for the country in this decade and next.
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I liked this video of the Leader of the Opposition, Pritam Singh.
The fact that we even have this official position at all makes me happy. When I was a teenager there, I vividly remember that Election Day was always just a holiday: the ruling party won almost every seat without contest.
There’s another video of his colleague Sylvia Lim, she talks about how she was spurred into action to join the difficult work of opposition party politics because of her shock at how we rarely had contested elections, 23 years ago.
I think Pritam has articulated a clear and attainable goal: of achieving 1/3 of the seats in Parliament (for them, or for any opposition combined). That’s a significant number because in our parliamentary democracy, you need 2/3 of the vote to change the Constitution.
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I’ve found out this election season that people call our new prime minister Voucher Wong. (He likes giving out vouchers. I’m not opposed to getting regular money from my government, but they don’t address the structural issues of why we need them in the first place
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One of Lee Kuan Yew's sons (the one who didn't become Prime Minister) has a NYT op-ed where he says Singapore has gone from 'benevolent autocracy' to just autocracy. I agree.
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The Singaporean ruling party leaked some ‘unsavory’ evidence about someone competing with them. Turns out it’s chats where he’s mad at the largest Singapore bank and telco, which actually maybe makes him more relatable. (fuck Singtel now and forever)
Meanwhile the ruling party is the one with a Cabinet minister in a bribery scandal.
https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/1kaskhb/wp_candidate_andre_low_previous_leaked_chats/
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Not sure if this was mentioned - putting just 26 candidates by WP for #GE2025 - means even if they win all the seats they are contesting - it'll only be just a tad higher than a quarter of the parliament.
Message to voters, especially those on the fence to know that even if they vote for WP - the PAP will still be the 'majority' - and that the governance of the country will not have 'significant' impact... From WP : go forth and vote WP! No #freakelections
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Singapore prime minister tells a crowd of people who mostly live in public housing that a wealth tax will negatively impact people who live in ‘landed’ housing (that only the rich can afford). Silence ensues. Great.
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My least favorite part of Singapore elections is the xenophobia.
We have ‘interesting’ xenophobia though coz it’s mainly from the Singaporean Chinese population towards those other Chinese people who are ‘not like us’, recent mainland Chinese immigrants who arrived in Singapore.. 20-80 years after our own grandparents did.
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Just tried to do an early #Vote in the Australian #GE2025
What a nightmare.
Utter, utter clown show, with literally hundreds - yes, hundreds - of signs, people in politial tee-shirts, balloons and banners. Making a complete mockery of the seriousness of voting.
I hate this fcking world. Hate it.
Couldn't face it, so I left.
Might not even bother voting.
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Overseas Singaporeans who registered to vote abroad just received emails with voting details containing their district information and logistics for voting.
For me, I will walk down the street to Market St to our San Francisco consulate, show my digital ID on my phone and cast my vote there.
I like the provision that anyone who registerd to vote abroad but happens to be home on the day of 3 May can also just go to a local in-person polling station. You just have to make a declaration that you haven’t already voted.
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FOSS advocate @harishpillay is standing for elections at Singapore’s upcoming election! He will be contesting Bukit Gombak with the PSP
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Today is Nomination Day, a strange political tradition in my country just ahead of elections, almost like a gender reveal but for politicians
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ge2025-nomination-day-general-election-candidates-5069501
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#LetterOfTheWeek
Forum: #GE2025 is more than abt winning seats
"As #Singapore marks 60th year of independence.. not merely a routine democratic exercise but a contest of ideas, credibility & renewal.. A maturing #democracy needs a #diversity of voices, credible opposition, & leaders with both head & heart. Voters, esp'ly e younger gen, r watching closely not just what candidates say, but how they say it, & whether they #walkthetalk.. #vote w clarity, courage & conviction"
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/forum/forum-ge2025-more-than-just-a-matter-of-winning-seats -
587 people registered to vote in the Singapore general elections from San Francisco. I am one of them
I was able to register online quite easily using my phone. It took 5 minutes and I was notified of my eligibility (has residency requirement; need to have spent more than 30 days in Singapore in 3 years) within 3 days
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Post-colonial Singapore politics: why do we say ‘checks and balances’ but ‘don’t give the gahmen a blank cheque’
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@huey listening to this and it has been #cringe. Clearly language was targeted to engage younger voters ahead of #GE2025 ? JT trying to imply they are listening to uni and poly students (why can't say tertiary) and TSL saying that the economic climate will impact the fresh grads prospect of landing a job. But bruv the job market has been meh since covid... 😐 I'm also shocked that ML from SBF uses "tariff bans" and he quotes the DPM GKY 🤦♀️ seems their understanding of tariffs is ???
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Singapore elections soon. I’ll be voting at the consulate on Market St in San Francisco
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ge2025-general-election-may-3-parliament-dissolved-5064316
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Fuck this homophobic and xenophobic ‘politician’ in Singapore
‘Make Singapore Home Again’? No thanks. I am proud that Singapore is home to so many people not like me, including those who quite literally build it. I want more things to make *them* feel more welcome.
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Singapore ‘politician’ (who has never won anything): I will stop using homophobia as my party platform if you don’t field an openly lesbian candidate
Fuck off, GMS and your ‘party’
I feel like I can laugh about him coz he’s such a loser and has no chance in hell, but all of this is making me concerned about what happens when we have a homophobic populist politician
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Members of the new cabinet pose for publicity shots before getting down to some serious 'policy making'.
#VoteSaxon
#DoctorWho
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Do you get frustrated by other people's abstractions of geography? Do you have strong preferences about hex cartogram layouts of UK constituencies for the next election? Do you have a better feel than me for parts of the UK outside Yorkshire? If so, please help improve our open source layout of future UK constituencies.
Read more at https://open-innovations.org/blog/2023-08-03-hexes-for-the-next-general-election and play around with the layout at https://open-innovations.org/projects/hexmaps/builder.html?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/odileeds/hexmaps/gh-pages/maps/uk-constituencies-2023.hexjson
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Why is this important?
bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotlan…
This will give a good indication of voting intentions for #GE2025.
We need to see how well #Labour does.
#Politics
