All eyes on how the Malays vote

Walkabout: Workers’ Party secretary-general Low Thia Khiang (right) and candidate for East Coast GRC Leon Perera (second from right) talking to voters at the Simei MRT station.

The late Lee Kuan Yew’s remarks in ‘Hard Truths’ against the Malays certainly made an impact on their voting patterns in 2011. It’s hard to know whether the sting of the remarks has healed or has been sustained over the last four years.

DURING Singapore’s election campaign in 2011, then Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew told reporters that if voters in the Aljunied Group Repre­­sentation Constituency (GRC) chose the Opposition, “I say, good luck to them. They have five years to ruminate and regret what they did. And I have no doubt they will regret it.”