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A VETERAN VISITS: Incumbent PAP candidate for Hong Kah North Amy Khor, 62, visiting residents in Bukit Batok West last Wednesday. She is facing off against political newcomer Gigene Wong, 54, of the Progress Singapore Party. ST PHOTO: SHINTARO TAY
BEST FEET FORWARD: Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, 51, PAP candidate in the Marine Parade GRC team, seen in shoes with the words "maju" and "lah" during a doorstop interview in Serangoon Avenue 3 last Thursday. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM TEARFUL FAREWELL: Outgoing PAP MP
LIGHT MOMENT WITH FEATHERED FRIENDS: Workers' Party chairman Sylvia Lim, 55, with the party's Punggol West SMC candidate Tan Chen Chen (centre), 38, and party chief Pritam Singh (far left), 43, meeting a parrot enthusiast (not pictured) and his parrots at a field near Punggol Central last Friday. The new Punggol West SMC is being contested by Ms Tan and the PAP's Ms Sun Xueling, 40. ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO
BEST FEET FORWARD: Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, 51, PAP candidate in the Marine Parade GRC team, seen in shoes with the words "maju" and "lah" during a doorstop interview in Serangoon Avenue 3 last Thursday. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM TEARFUL FAREWELL: Outgoing PAP MP
TEARFUL FAREWELL: Outgoing PAP MP Lee Bee Wah, 59, of Nee Soon GRC saying goodbye to residents at a coffee shop in Yishun Ring Road yesterday. ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO
BEST FEET FORWARD: Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, 51, PAP candidate in the Marine Parade GRC team, seen in shoes with the words "maju" and "lah" during a doorstop interview in Serangoon Avenue 3 last Thursday. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM TEARFUL FAREWELL: Outgoing PAP MP
BEST FEET FORWARD: Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, 51, PAP candidate in the Marine Parade GRC team, seen in shoes with the words "maju" and "lah" during a doorstop interview in Serangoon Avenue 3 last Thursday. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
BEST FEET FORWARD: Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, 51, PAP candidate in the Marine Parade GRC team, seen in shoes with the words "maju" and "lah" during a doorstop interview in Serangoon Avenue 3 last Thursday. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM TEARFUL FAREWELL: Outgoing PAP MP
SAFE DISTANCE: Singapore Democratic Alliance chairman Desmond Lim, 53, attempting to take a wefie with his party members on June 22 before a walkabout in Pasir Ris. He is leading a team in a three-way contest in Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
BEST FEET FORWARD: Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, 51, PAP candidate in the Marine Parade GRC team, seen in shoes with the words "maju" and "lah" during a doorstop interview in Serangoon Avenue 3 last Thursday. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM TEARFUL FAREWELL: Outgoing PAP MP
NO HANDSHAKE, PLEASE: Singapore Democratic Party candidate Chee Soon Juan, 57, watching as a volunteer did an elbow bump with a supporter at Bukit Batok MRT station last Thursday. The supporter wanted to shake hands with him but the volunteer suggested an elbow bump. ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO
BEST FEET FORWARD: Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, 51, PAP candidate in the Marine Parade GRC team, seen in shoes with the words "maju" and "lah" during a doorstop interview in Serangoon Avenue 3 last Thursday. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM TEARFUL FAREWELL: Outgoing PAP MP
TAKING A CLOSE LOOK: A patron at a coffee shop in Sengkang checking out a flier given out by the Workers' Party candidates for Sengkang GRC last Thursday. ST PHOTO: ARIFFIN JAMAR
SELFIE TIME: Progress Singapore Party candidate for Marymount SMC Ang Yong Guan, 65, taking a selfie with his poster in Thomson Garden Estate last Tuesday. The other poster shows PAP candidate Gan Siow Huang, 45. ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO
BEST FEET FORWARD: Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, 51, PAP candidate in the Marine Parade GRC team, seen in shoes with the words "maju" and "lah" during a doorstop interview in Serangoon Avenue 3 last Thursday. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM TEARFUL FAREWELL: Outgoing PAP MP
IN PLACE OF RALLIES: A man at Old Airport Road Food Centre watching National Solidarity Party's Mr Spencer Ng, 40, during a party political broadcast last Thursday. ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
BEST FEET FORWARD: Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, 51, PAP candidate in the Marine Parade GRC team, seen in shoes with the words "maju" and "lah" during a doorstop interview in Serangoon Avenue 3 last Thursday. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM TEARFUL FAREWELL: Outgoing PAP MP
PANDEMIC PRACTICES: Election officials sanitising the microphones at Kong Hwa School nomination centre to be used by candidates for their televised speech on Nomination Day last Tuesday. The wipe-down was repeated after each candidate spoke. ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JIN
CONTESTING NEE SOON GRC: Candidates from the Progress Singapore Party - (from left) Mr Bradley Bowyer, 53, Ms Kala Manickam, 52, Mr Damien Tay, 51, Mr Taufik Supan, 40, and Mr Sri Nallakaruppan, 56 - giving their speech on Nomination Day last Tuesday at the nomination centre in Chongfu School in Yishun. ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN
Updated
Jul 06, 2020, 05:00 AM
Published
Jul 06, 2020, 05:00 AM

Held in a time of Covid-19, General Election 2020 has been an unusual one without rallies. But candidates are still walking the ground. The Straits Times Picture Desk captures the first week of campaigning.

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