September 05, 01:06 PM 
514 Chai Chee Lane 03-16, Singapore 469029 Our eyebrows were raised when Reform Party (RP) candidate Jesse Loo told a pro-PAP supporter to “Vote for Workers’ Party” at Ang Mo Kio MRT station on Sept. 2.
This morning, our eyebrows twitched furiously with what Loo said in last night's Ang Mo Kio rally at Yio Chu Kang stadium:
"I like Siva (RP candidate Siva Chandran), will be very happy, once we go into parliament, we will make sure that as a (sic) Minister, we are efficiently working for you."
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Here is a quick Singapore Politics 101 lesson for Loo:
1. There are 89 seats in parliament.
2. To form the government and to be a Minister, the political party will need to win 45 seats to be the ruling party.
3. RP will be contesting for 11 seats this GE (Ang Mo Kio GRC, West Coast GRC, and Radin Mas SMC)
4. Assuming that RP and leading Opposition party Workers' Party (WP) win all the seats they contested, they will only have 39 (28+11) seats.
5. In other words, RP will need to form a coalition with WP and one more party before Loo can be a Minister.
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