#643 ft. Ravi Philemon - Why We Need “Mosquito Parties”, Going Up Against Tharman & His Reasons for Leaving PSP
Red Dot United’s Secretary-General Ravi Philemon opens up about why he left the Progress Singapore Party (PSP) to start Red Dot United just weeks before GE2020, and even more shockingly, contested against now-President Tharman Shanmugaratnam. He shares how RDU is positioning itself differently from other opposition parties ahead of GE2025, why discipline and data matter for his team, and the challenges of building a new party from scratch. Plus, he lays out the reason why smaller opposition parties, or “mosquito parties”, as Bertha Henson puts it, need to exist in our democracy.
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