GE2025: Seah Kian Peng says he wants to continue serving Braddell Heights ward
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Speaker of Parliament Seah Kian Peng with a resident during an event at the Braddell Heights Community Hub on March 29.
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SINGAPORE – Speaker of Parliament Seah Kian Peng said he wants to continue serving the Braddell Heights ward of Marine Parade GRC if given the chance, as he has been “lucky” to have done for the last 19 years.
“I love this place... You develop a relationship with the place, with the people,” said Mr Seah, who is serving his fourth term as an MP for Marine Parade GRC.
The constituency has been renamed Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC,
“But as you also know, nothing is certain until Nomination Day,” he added.
Mr Seah was speaking to The Straits Times on the sidelines of an event at the Braddell Heights Community Hub on March 29. The event aimed to educate residents about ways to stay safe from online and phone scams.
At the event, he gave residents an update on upcoming developments in the neighbourhood. These include the new Serangoon Polyclinic – the largest in Singapore – which will open by the end of 2025, as well as the upgraded Braddell Heights Community Club, which will be ready by May, and the refurbished Serangoon Market, which will open in October with a new study centre.
“Everything we do here, we do it because we want to make Braddell Heights a better home for all of us,” he told residents.
Mr Seah told ST he has built strong connections with the residents over the years, and knowing he has made things better for them has brought him gratification, and drives him to keep going.
Many residents came forward during the event to shake Mr Seah’s hand, taking photos with him and giving him their best wishes for the upcoming election. He said he recognised many of the residents in the area, by face if not by name.
He acknowledged that there will always be some people who are unhappy, but they are “the minority”.
Mr Seah entered politics with the PAP in 2006, in the general election held in May that year.
He was appointed Speaker of Parliament in August 2023
When asked about the PAP team that will contest Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC, Mr Seah said the party was not yet ready to disclose this, but it will be made known soon.
He added that candidates are decided based on the area’s demographics, with the Marine Parade and Braddell Heights wards skewing older, for instance.
More than 20 per cent of the area’s residents are aged 65 and above, higher than the national average of 18 per cent.
Correction note: An earlier version of this story misstated that the national average of residents aged 65 years and above was 17 per cent. It should have been 18 per cent.
