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The Need for a Multi-Party System 作者：Dr Wong Wee Nam 译者：Bruce Wee 李总理过去曾经提过，现在又重复，一个多党执政制度对新加坡是没有益处的。在2006年大选时曾说过这样的话‘如果有太多的反对党进入国会，政府将不得不浪费时间对付(fixing)他们’，现在此人还持有这种观点并不令人感到意外。 对于除了人民行动党执政以外不需要其他反对党，他给的理由是新加坡太小，没有足够的人才组成一个多党制度。以色列是一个小国，长年处于战争状态，但他们却有... 

Even at this late stage the PAP still refuses to announce the election boundaries. The Elections Department has already started to make preparations for the general elections. It has asked schools for an update on its premises for use as polling centres, reserved the use of void decks for balloting purposes, and, just this week,... 

Singapore’s façade democracy needs to be challenged if citizens want their political rights – this is what I took away from my one hour conversation with Tan Wah Piow at London Heathrow Airport on 19 September 2010. Tan & Gomez For Wah Piow, the political challenge that Singapore faces today, compared to the time he...