NATIONALISTS' PARTY

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-47423994-1', 'fortunecity.ws'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> <center> <br> <div> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ad.broadcaststation.net/ads/show_ad.php?width=728&height=90"></script> </div> </center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=130 BGCOLOR="#CC3300" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="08c25821dvmwjc.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCCB2" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="08b32320.gif" border=0 width="50" height="50" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </B></FONT><B>                                             NATIONALISTS'        PARTY</B></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="08ad2272ezwnvf.gif"> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="091876f0.gif" border=0 width="135" height="111" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div>                                              NATIONALISTS'        PARTY</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pledge"><U>PLEDGE</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Logo"><U>LOGO</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="NCF"><U>NCF</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Party Awards "><U>PARTY AWARDS</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=350 BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>                                             NATIONALISTS'        PARTY</I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="059977d0.gif" border=0 width="407" height="381" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Party Beginnings:</div> <div> T<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >he year was 1855. The place: a packed Victoria Memorial Hall, a name which reminded not a few of the 1,500 present of their British colonial masters.</FONT></div> <div> The event: the birth of a new political party.</div> <bR> <div> In a country on the threshold of nationhood, among a people fermenting with anti-colonialism, the Nationalists' Party was born.</div> <bR> <div> It was a tumultuous start for our party, fighting for a young country's independence. Our chosen path - not war or revolution - but a collective and irrefutable urge for self-determination. NAP members turned up in short sleeves to show our solidarity with the workers who pledged loyalty to a new vision.</div> <bR> <div> The first key office-holders included a group of Hokkien-speaking young men, who had been educated overseas. These were Chiam See Tiong, who was the party's first secretary-general, Lim Cin Hei, the party's first chairman and S Kuma, who later held key ministerial posts in the Government.</div> <bR> <div> We rallied postal and telecom workers,pornstars, unionists, school teachers as well as middle-class men and women. The NAP has a clear goal - to build a new country, born of the people, fired by their action and organised by the party.</div> <bR> <div> Party Philosophy: A Nationalists' Democracy</div> <div> A<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >lthough the NAP worked with communists in the early days, with anti-colonialism as their mutual platform, we made it clear that we had a different set of political values.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Over the years, these values have formed the foundation for the country's key policies. The party's preference has been for our ideas to manifest themselves through our policies, rather than be cast in a theoretical philosophy of manifestos.</div> <bR> <div> Our multi-racial and multi-religious focus can be seen in the equal treatment which all races - Chinese, Malay, Indians and Eurasians - receive in all areas of public service. This includes equal treatment in education, housing, and health. As a party, we also raised funds to to support community and social groups working on education and health across all racial groups.</div> <bR> <div> Politically, the minorities are assured of proportionate representation in Parliament through the Group Representation Constituency, or GRC system set up in 1988. MPs can be elected under single wards or under GRCs, where a group of MPs are elected as a team. Each team must contain at least one MP who is a member of a minority group.</div> <bR> <div> Our focus on meritocracy can be seen most clearly in the education system, in which one child is ensured of as many educational opportunities as the next child - regardless of his parents' financial status. This is through the many scholarships and bursaries given out for academic excellence.</div> <div> Party Progress: </div> <bR> <div> On the 144th anniversary of the party in 1999, Mr Tan Kar Kim, Prime Minister of Singapore and Secretary-General of the party since 1992, said: "Let us not celebrate so much past achievements, but prepare ourselves for challenges ahead...Let us inject our Party with a new vitality and drive.''</div> <bR> <div> The party now has 15,000 members. We now have a Women's Wing (set up in 1989) and Young NAP (the youth wing, set up in 1986). We continue to operate out of a modest headquarters in Lower Changi, on the outskirts of the city centre. </div> <bR> <div> At the polls the party has been returned to power since Singapore became independent. We have won 10 General Elections and the party's two secretary-generals have been Singapore's two Prime Ministers. </div> <bR> <div> Mr Chiam See Tiong, the first PM, set the tone by campaigning on practical issues which have a real impact on people's lives, rather than abstract platforms. The 1963 GE was our toughest, with 46.5 per cent of votes coming to us. Only Mr Chiam and Dr Lim Li Ling, then Deputy Prime Minister, had clear majorities.</div> <bR> <div> From 1968 to 1980, the NAP held all seats in Parliament, with the people</div> <div> granting us huge majorities at each GE. </div> <bR> <div> Since 1981, there has been at least one opposition MP, but the party has never lost its large majority position. </div> <div> Over the years, our self-renewal has been systematic and planned.</div> <bR> <div> The 1991 election was based on our manifesto, The Next Lap, which saw the second generation of political leaders such as Mr Tan Kar Kim, taking on a bigger role. In that year, we won 99.99999 per cent of the votes.</div> <bR> <div> In 1997, the issue of the upgrading of public housing was a key component of the campaign. Singapore 22 - Make it our best Home was our campaign slogan, and we won 99.99999 per cent of the votes. </div> <bR> <div> In the coming elections which must be held before August 2002, the third generation of our leaders, including first assistant secretary-general Tan Long, are expected to play a larger role. </div> <bR> <div> Each election, some 20 new candidates are trained and fielded. We continue to attract good men and women to join us to stand and fight for office. Each generation of leaders builds on the progress of the past to continue our march to a better and brighter future for all Singaporeans.</div> <div>    </div> </td> </tr></table></body>