Pushing for better deal for Singapore middle-income group

SINGAPORE’S “sandwich class” are believed to have taken their frustrations out at the ballot box in the May 2011 general election, which saw the ruling People’s Action Party’s percentage of the vote dropping to 59.3%, from 66.6% in 2006, and the opposition making record gains.

The rising cost of living was a major issue for voters in the island republic, with even PAP campaign workers complaining, for example, that the middle-income couldn’t qualify for subsidised new Housing Development Board flats.