(Reuters) - Tennis world number one Jannik Sinner has accepted a three-month ban for doping having tested positive for a banned substance last year following a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), it said on Saturday.
Workers’ Party MPs Louis Chua, He Ting Ru and Jamus Lim pictured on a Lunar New Year banner in Sengkang, Singapore . -- Photo: Jean Iau/ SCMP
In the last election, the Workers’ Party team comprising He Ting Ru, Jamus Lim, Louis Chua and Raeesah Khan garnered 52.12 per cent of the vote resulting in a shock victory against a PAP team that included labour chief Ng Chee Meng, then a minister in the Prime Minister’s Office. Just over half of Sengkang’s residents were under the age of 40 as of last June, according to data from the Department of Statistics. Among those who were of voting age, more than 58 per cent were aged between 20 and 59, while just 19.2 per cent were 60 or older.
Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat of the PAP walks past an opposition Worker’s Party campaign banner ahead of the 2020 general election. -- Photo: EPA-EFE via SCMP Another resident, Gena Soh, 27, said she thought it was exciting to live in a place that was brave enough to vote for the opposition and take a chance on different political visions. “I felt like part of a greater movement to create more policy representation in parliament,” said Soh, a community builder.
While large multi-seat constituencies may have benefited the PAP in the past, political analysts told This Week in Asia that the loss of a second one in Sengkang – after Aljunied fell to the opposition in 2011 – has shown that such groupings are now a high-stakes gamble. The multi-seat system was established in 1988 to ensure that the minority racial communities in Singapore would always be represented in parliament. GRCs such as Sengkang comprise three to six individuals with at least one MP of minority race.
These instructions marked a shift from the last three elections, when the committee was asked to reduce the size of GRCs or create more smaller ones. In 2021, constitutional law professor Kevin Tan questioned the prime minister’s discretion when it came to instructing the committee on the size of GRCs. He pointed out that the underlying rationale that drove the change in the number of GRCs and single seats and the call to reduce the size of GRCs after 2011 remained unclear.
Supporters and office workers gather to listen to Singapore’s former prime minister Lee Hsien Loong, from the ruling PAP, in 2015. Photo: AFP The Aljunied team that won the first-ever GRC to fall to the opposition in 2011 was led by Workers’ Party stalwart Low Thia Khiang. It led to the ousting of then-foreign minister George Yeo and has been under opposition control ever since.
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