Singapore polls: Battle for the mind and heart of the middle-ground voter

Progress Singapore Party's secretary-general Tan Cheng Bock (left) gives a fist bump greeting to People's Action Party's candidate Yip Hon Weng during a walkabout ahead of the upcoming general election in Singapore on July 2, 2020. - AFP

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): This is shaping up to be one of the least emotive yet most intense election campaigns since the 1990s.

Least emotive, because of the absence of vitriol and emotional hammering of candidates. When personality issues emerged, they were quickly dealt with and candidates from both sides signalled they wanted to move on to focus on issues.