Singapore election: no mass rallies but more media airtime for candidates

Candidates taking part in Singapore’s upcoming general election will be banned from holding campaign rallies but will be granted unprecedented access to broadcast media, guidelines released on Thursday showed, amid expectations that the vote is now weeks away.The fresh guidelines on campaigning follow a separate announcement last week on special measures that will be put in place to safeguard the health of the country’s 2.65 million voters if the polls are held imminently, in the midst of the…

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