{"id":17171,"date":"2015-06-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2015\/06\/08\/opposition-parties-get-set-for-contest\/"},"modified":"2020-09-28T23:56:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T15:56:52","slug":"opposition-parties-get-set-for-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2015\/06\/08\/opposition-parties-get-set-for-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition parties get set for contest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Straits Times reports that opposition parties are traditionally even more coy\u00a0than the\u00a0<\/span>PAP\u00a0about their new faces, but clues have emerged from walkabouts and new members appointed as office holders\u00a0in Singapore\u200b. The\u00a0likely new candidates\u00a0are professionals and businessmen\u00a0<\/span>as opposed\u00a0to the past, when it was a case of taking anyone who knocked on the door.\u00a0With its success in the last election, the\u00a0<\/span>WP\u00a0has a clear edge over the other opposition parties, and has used this advantage to attract more professionals. ‘Opposition parties get set for contest’ mentions A\/P Daniel Goh (Dept. of Sociology)<\/span>\u00a0in his role as\u00a0president of the WP Youth Wing.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Straits Times reports that opposition parties are traditionally even more coy\u00a0than the\u00a0PAP\u00a0about their new faces, but clues have emerged from walkabouts and new members appointed as office holders\u00a0in Singapore\u200b. The\u00a0likely new candidates\u00a0are professionals and businessmen\u00a0as opposed\u00a0to the past, when it was a case of taking anyone who knocked on the door.\u00a0With its success in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26141,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17171\/revisions\/26141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}