After reiterating his intentions as President on Nomination Day (Aug 22), Tan Kin Lian spoke about his decision not to hold a rally as it would be “too expensive”.
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00:00 I'm very happy to be receiving the approval to contest this presidential election.
00:08 I will work very hard over the next few days to win over as many votes as possible.
00:18 I hope that my supporters will elect me to be an independent president so that I can
00:31 do my best to use the influence of the President's Office to make life better for all the people
00:42 in Singapore.
00:43 My goals are to reduce the cost of living, to make housing affordable and to make jobs
00:56 secure and well-paid.
00:59 So thank you all for your support, for your messages of encouragement.
01:04 I thank all the people that I meet in the food court, in the market and in the MRT station
01:15 and for their very warm reception.
01:21 I hope that they will reflect the feeling of everybody in Singapore that I have not
01:27 met yet.
01:28 Together, I hope that by 1st September, we can have a president that will look after
01:37 the interests of all the people of Singapore.
01:41 My campaign symbol is "Living in Harmony".
01:48 The four figures represent the major ethnic groups in Singapore and they are all reaching
01:57 out to hope for a better future.
02:00 We already have got the centres ready, way ahead.
02:07 But I think my campaign manager wanted to get all the signatures today but I was afraid
02:15 that would be too risky.
02:17 If some of them don't come, then you will be disqualified.
02:23 So I asked him to quickly get all the signatures, so that was a last-minute rush.
02:29 His original plan was to get it all today, get everybody to come.
02:32 But I think it's too risky because the whole campaign, so much effort has gone in and it
02:39 could just fail for a technical reason.
02:42 The next nine days, I will have a walkabout because there are so many places in Singapore.
02:52 So even the nine days I've gone and another nine days, it's not enough.
02:58 So I will go on the walkabout.
03:02 And originally I planned to have a rally on Friday but I found that the venue is too expensive
03:11 and the expenses are too expensive and I don't have support of big tycoons.
03:19 So therefore I'm reconsidering whether instead of a rally, is there another way.
03:27 So this will be planned for the next few days.
03:30 Based on the interaction of the people I meet at the market, at the mall, and based on the
03:38 comments I receive on social media, I am confident.
03:44 In my social media, there is a group of people I consider malicious.
03:49 They are out to just attack, criticise me.
03:54 It's malicious.
03:56 So I exclude them.
04:00 And if I look at the people who are genuinely expressing their opinion, I'm very positive,
04:06 confident.
04:07 Thank you.
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