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«Truncated audio clips of one of my conversations, taken out of context, are being circulated with ill-intent», Chan Chun Sing said in a Facebook post today (July 8). Chan is the anchor minister for People's Action Party's (PAP) Tanjong Pagar GGE2020: Doctored audio clips of Chan Chun Sing circulated with 'ill-intent'
«Truncated audio clips of one of my conversations, taken out of context, are being circulated with ill-intent», Chan Chun Sing said in a Facebook post today (July 8). Chan is the anchor minister for People's Action Party's (PAP) Tanjong Pagar GRC team. One of the three truncated clips was edited to make it seem as though he had said a crisis would save the incumbent in the elections. It cited the US 9/11 incident and the late Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's death as examples of crises that had led to PAP's success in past elections. Another clip implied the dispute between Singapore and Malaysia over airspace had «spiralled», while the third painted the idea that Chan thought the political uncertainty in Malaysia would serve as an advantage to their own election. Chan refuted all of them, and provided the context for each clip, pointing out that the timing of the release of the clips was «surely not coincidental». Read more