GE2025: PAP putting forward largest slate of new faces in recent history, says PM Wong

MARSILING-YEW TEE GRC

The unchanged line-up features all four incumbents: Mr Wong, Senior Minister of State for Defence and Manpower Zaqy Mohamad, North West District mayor Alex Yam and Ms Hany Soh.

The next general election must be held by Nov 23 this year. The polls are expected to be called soon, following the release of the country’s revised electoral map last month.

In the last general election in 2020, the PAP team retained the GRC with 63.18 per cent of the votes against a Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) line-up. The SDP has again declared its intent to contest the ward in this year’s contest.

A decade on from the creation of Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC, Mr Wong and Mr Yam remain from the original team.

Mr Zaqy was a Chua Chu Kang GRC MP from 2011, but started helping out in the constituency as a grassroots adviser after Madam Halimah Yacob left in 2017 to contest the presidential election. In 2020, he joined the Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC slate, along with Ms Soh.

Mr Wong, who is the anchor minister, recently highlighted major long-term projects that are in the works in the constituency, during the launch of the Marsiling-Yew Tee Town Five-Year Masterplan for 2025 to 2030.

They include two new Downtown Line MRT stations that would better connect residents to the city, and the redevelopment of Kranji racecourse and Woodlands Checkpoint.