On April 25, PAP's candidate for Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC Alex Yam responds to PSP and SDP's comments on GST made at the rallies as well as the redeployment of candidates.
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00:00Each party of course is free to do their deployment as they deem best in the
00:10interest of the voters and in the interest of the representation. As PM
00:15has explained in terms of the deployment of DPM GAN we had to do so so that the
00:21east of Singapore had a good heavyweight minister would be able to carry the
00:27ground there. The difference is that Dr Chi made a public pledge not to abandon
00:35Bukit Batu and days later made the decision that he will swap. That is the
00:41crux of the issue and in fact across many other parties they do it but not
00:46because for exigency's sake right they do it they plan it hopefully to be able to
00:52give the best chance for voters to make a decision.
00:55Yang made the comments after he along with Prime Minister and the People's
00:59Action Party Secretary-General Lawrence Wong engaged residents in UT.
01:04On the key themes of the goods and services tax hike and the rising cost of living pressures
01:17that were brought up by the Singapore Democratic Party and the Progress Singapore
01:21Party during their physical rallies held last night. Yang also said that the
01:26government is always prepared to listen to other views and to take them on but
01:31they must be grounded in reality not purely as political statements to win
01:36votes and ultimately cost the country in the long run.
01:40We hear a lot of requests or demands from the opposition, we will roll back, we will do this, we
01:48will waive this but we don't hear enough of how are we going to fund future needs, how is this
01:55going to cost in terms of a lot of the programs that we are running. What is the
02:01opportunity alternative and very often even if they do provide some sort of
02:06alternative very often it does not come with actual numbers and actual calculations
02:15that would make sense.