Singapore goes to the polls on Sept 11

SINGAPORE: -- Today Online reported that Singaporeans will head to the polls on Sept 11 after President Tony Tan Keng Yam yesterday dissolved Parliament and issued the writ of election on the advice of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Political parties will have nine days to campaign — the minimum period under the election laws — before Cooling-off Day on Sept 10.

Candidates have to submit the nomination papers — in the presence of their proposers, seconders and at least four assentors — between 11am and noon on Nomination Day, at one of nine designated Nomination Centres depending on which ward they intend to contest. Nine schools have been listed as nomination centres.

Nomination papers can be collected from the Singapore Elections Department (ELD) on Prinsep Link. Soft copies of the nomination paper can be downloaded from the ELD website.

The ELD said the deposit per candidate is S$14,500, or 8 per cent of the total allowances payable to a Member of Parliament in the preceding calendar year and rounded to the nearest $500.

There will be 89 Parliamentary seats to be filled. Whether history will also be made with all constituencies contested for the first time since 1963 will be known on Nomination Day, which falls on Sept 1.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/singapore-goes-to-the-polls-on-sept-11


-- Thai PBS 2015-08-26

I wonder how many of the opposition will be sued and bankrupted by PAP this time around.