The Usual Place Podcast
GE2025: WP’s Sengkang team on going from new faces to first-term MPs, and the journey so far
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As first-term MPs, they had to navigate both constituency work and team dynamics after winning Sengkang GRC in GE2020 with 52.13 per cent of the vote – the biggest upset of the election then.
The WP took 60,136 votes, while the PAP got 55,214 votes.
Since then, have there been any growing pains, and how has their working relationship evolved? How do they split roles in the team?
In this livestreamed episode on April 30, WP’s Sengkang slate swung by The Usual Place couch.
Ms He Ting Ru, 41; Associate Professor Jamus Lim, 49; and Mr Louis Chua, 37, are contesting Sengkang GRC again – this time with newcomer Abdul Muhaimin, 36. They are up against the PAP team led by Dr Lam Pin Min.
I ask them how they feel about winning Sengkang in the last election, and what they’re learning so far during campaigning for GE2025. The Usual Place – a podcast by The Straits Times
Highlights (click/tap above):
0:54 One theme from the ground that needs to be examined beyond GE2025
6:28 Being yourself - new candidate Mr Muhaimin on advice he gets from his teammates during campaigning
12:15 How they react to party leaders’ statements on WP fielding its strongest slate in many years
13:35 Ms He on women in politics
18:25 The quartet on valuable advice coming from senior WP leaders that they still hold dear today
24:10 Prof Lim on advice given to new candidate Michael Thng for the recent national TV roundtable discussion?
33:29 “Such language was not used in volunteer chat groups or with residents”: Mr Chua on Mr Andre Low’s leaked Telegram messages from a private chat among his business school classmates
40:56 Game Time! What are some apps they wish they would use less on the phone
Host: Natasha Zachariah ( natashaz@sph.com.sg
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Filmed by: Studio+65
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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