Why WP walks its own path: Low Thia Khiang

Yahoo! News Singapore, 22 Jan 2013
Speaking during the party's second rally of the Punggol East by-election, Low said he has met a lot of opposition supporters who hope for the opposition to develop and become stronger.
"They often feel pained by the disparity and disunity of the parties here, and the state of the political opposition in Singapore. I understand their disappointment and hopes," he said in Mandarin.
Referring to why it did not entertain the idea of fielding a joint candidate, as proposed by Singapore Democratic Party's Chee Soon Juan prior to Nomination Day, Low continued, "The opposition is a convoluted, complicated thing--made up of different people, different parties, different leaders, different ways of questioning the government, even."
Low explained that is why from 1997, the WP "decided to forge its own path". Full story