Parties should focus on issues like jobs at hustings: Shanmugam

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Concerns about their rice bowl and Covid-19 are foremost on the minds of Singaporeans going into the general election, and politicians should focus on addressing these issues at the hustings, Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam said yesterday. People also want to...

"And it's always got to do with identifying a different grouping - whether it's foreigners or whether it's a different race within the community, or a specific religion, or people of religious persuasion."

"We handle race relations in a very different way, we integrate our societies, we don't allow ghettos to develop," he said.Covid-19 has created a sober environment in which Singaporeans are thinking very seriously about the economy,"not as a conceptual entity but impacting on them directly - on their jobs, and their children's jobs", he said.

While the Government has put in place four budgets to support people, Singaporeans know that alone will not help companies to survive, said Mr Shanmugam.

 

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