GE2025: Highlights from rallies: April 26

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No time to playback all the 9 rallies on Saturday night (April 26)? Here's the highlights from rallies held by the People's Action Party (PAP), People's Alliance for Reform (PAR), Progress Singapore Party (PSP), People's Power Party (PPP), Red Dot United (RDU), Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) and Workers' Party - all in 5 minutes.

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00:00elections are a time when parties present their policies and platforms and

00:08then persuade the people for support sure we'll criticize each other but we

00:14criticize each other's ideas and policies not persons IMF cut Singapore growth

00:20forecast amid Trump tariffs US China tech war Singapore down every country down

00:262025 down 2026 down opposition say rumor-mongering actually I think I was

00:36thinking either they don't know they don't understand or they know and they

00:45are lying to you either way is that right if there was a lightning risk then

00:51they would have contingency plans in case of a lightning risk what is Singaporeans

00:59contingency plan we know that the symbol of the PAP is the lightning but with

01:07lightning comes the lightning risk Prime Minister Lee Sin-long is here everyone

01:13voted for him for his face value why Singaporeans are very kind people kind

01:18so if you do not vote for Lee Sin-long next day we do not have Prime Minister how

01:25that is always at the back of my of your mind I can understand that I can

01:32understand that but now that he is no longer the Prime Minister do you still

01:38want to vote for him or you vote for change it was a very difficult decision

01:45for me to ask him to go to Ponggol but I would like to seek your understanding

01:50when Teo Chi Hien retired I needed a steady and experienced leader to anchor not

01:57just Ponggol but the entire Northeast area and I decided Gam Kim Yong was the best

02:03person to do this but I would not leave Chua Chukang without someone capable to

02:10carry the work here and that's why I looked around my team and I decided the

02:16best person to come here is none other than

02:20Tan Si Ling we call for seniors over 60 years old to be allowed to use their MediSafe to pay for all

02:30medical expenses not already covered by MediShield Life Medifun or other

02:35assistance schemes such usage should be only be permitted at government

02:43polyclinics specialist outpatient clinics and chas clinics in the public sector and

02:50chas clinics for chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension we call for the

02:57current spending limits of five hundred dollars or seven hundred dollars per year to be removed

03:07some have said that the PAP's reaction to this US tariff announcement is overblown that we are

03:15sending a message of fear and there is no need to worry because Singapore has weathered bigger storms

03:22before but but really are you sure this is not just another storm this is no ordinary storm this is a tidal

03:37wave of change I am so happy I must thank God that I'm 85 years old and still looking after you

03:46now many have actually asked me why at my age I should be around being involved in politics I should

03:59make answers very simple I care for Singapore and that is the most important how will la la boo's la boo boo's

04:10la boo boo's yes I don't even want to pronounce their name because it is below my contempt I do not want

04:17to think of a citizen depending on dolls and la boo boo's and free giveaways CDC's ice creams

04:28fish and eggs given to citizens as if they were beggars no our citizens have pride in them our citizens and

04:36born and bred of Lee Kuan Yeo spirit and iron and fire we will bring back Lee Kuan Yeo spirit in the opposition

04:43we will show them what the people are made of

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