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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

SINGAPORE (SCMP): When a fresh-faced Workers’ Party team in Sengkang, a new town in the northeast of Singapore, won the popular vote in 2020, ousting a cabinet minister who was slated to become part of the next generation of leaders, resident Maideen Abdul Kader was shocked.

But Maideen, who recalled his primary school being used as a polling station in 1959 when the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) began its uninterrupted reign in the city state, is not holding his breath for the multi-seat constituency to be won back by the PAP.

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