The Usual Place Podcast
GE2025: How did RDU scale up from contesting 1 constituency in 2020 to 4 this year
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Meet RDU's new faces in this episode of The Usual Place podcast.
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Red Dot United (RDU) is a very young political party, formed only in 2020 when it contested just one constituency – Jurong GRC – with a team of five candidates.
Fast forward five years, and RDU is now fielding the second-highest number of opposition candidates in this election, behind the WP’s 26 candidates.
RDU’s 15 candidates are contesting four constituencies, going head-to-head with the PAP.
How did the party scale up from a one-GRC showing in 2020 to four constituencies today?
Joining me in this noon livestream earlier on April 29 are Ms Liyana Dhamirah, 38, and her teammate Marcus Neo, 33 - part of the party’s team contesting Jurong East-Bukit Batok GRC - and Ms Kala Manickam, 57, candidate for Jurong Central SMC.
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Highlights (click/tap above):
2:30 How a relatively new party like RDU managed to field the second largest number of opposition candidates
10:27 How Ms Liyana is able to dismiss a lot of insults; why file a police report over online harassment recently?
23:22 Ms Kala on switching from Jalan Kayu SMC to Jurong Central SMC
28:12 Mr Neo on housing and job insecurity as top concerns for millennial voters his age
36:18 Game time! Kopi-o kosong, bubble tea, teh tarik - what’s your favourite drink?
Today’s shirt worn by Natasha was sponsored by Good Addition.
Host: Natasha Zachariah ( natashaz@sph.com.sg
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ST Podcast producers: Teo Tong Kai & Eden Soh
Shorts edited by: ST Video
Executive producers: Ernest Luis, Danson Cheong and Lynda Hong
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