The PAP has responded to media queries regarding the Workers’ Party’s claim on Wednesday that 15 of its policy proposals from the last parliamentary term had been adopted "in some form" by the PAP government.
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00:00The work that we do in forming policies in creating a better Singapore requires collective
00:10effort, requires collective feedback from everyone. So when we say this, actually we
00:17have to also take note that we've robustly consulted a lot of people in the community
00:24through REACH, through even our own backbenchers, PAP backbenchers, and I think often times
00:35it's very hard to say if it comes from anyone else, but the reality is that everyone contributes
00:41to this, and I think the bigger point to appreciate and understand is that that is the way we want
00:46to move forward. We cannot run on just the government alone, we do want collective insights,
00:53but key in actually looking at the selection of leadership is really to ensure that the
01:01party that has the track record, the capability of translating just ideas into action, looking
01:10through the pros and cons of something, you need to have someone, a team that can navigate
01:16it well. So that I think is something we would ask for voters to think about, and we enter
01:25this space with humility, we respect different views, and I do appreciate the robust competition
01:33and challenge because I think that's what makes Singapore better. So I think we welcome the
01:39positions shared by different parties.