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SINGAPORE – Two men accused of tampering with election posters in separate incidents were indicted in district court on Wednesday (November 25).
The two Singaporeans, Lim Song Huat, 48, and Constantine Paul, 51, were charged with crimes under the Parliamentary Elections Act.
General elections in Singapore were held on July 10.
Lim, who faces three charges, was on a service road at 13 Woodlands Street around 9:30 a.m. on July 3, during the campaign period, when he allegedly used a black ballpoint pen to draw a horizontal line across a poster of the Popular Action Party (PAP). hanging from a lamp post.
He is also accused of using his hands to tear a second PAP poster about 15 minutes later.
Lim is said to have later destroyed a third PAP poster by breaking it with his hands around 9.47 a.m.
Paul, who is facing two charges, allegedly removed two Singapore Progress Party (PSP) posters from the light poles on Bukit Batok East Avenue 5 around 8 p.m. on June 30.
In an earlier statement, police said they had launched investigations after officers found an election poster belonging to the PSP at the bottom of a lamp post on Bukit Batok East Avenue 5 around 1.50 a.m. on July 1. .
Later that day, the PSP filed a police report on another damaged party election poster on the same road.
In a Facebook post in July, PSP boss Tan Cheng Bock shared photos of the posters, showing the party board for Chua Chu Kang GRC, which were on the edge of the grass.
He wrote: “In the heat of the campaign, our emotions can get carried away … Let’s remember to keep a cool head.”
The PAP team at Aljunied GRC had also posted on their Facebook page a picture of a PAP poster torn with their chalkboard for the constituency representation group (GRC).
The court heard Wednesday that Paul and Lim intend to plead guilty to their crimes at their next court appearance on January 7 of next year.
Under the law, it is a crime for anyone to alter, remove, destroy, erase or deface election posters or banners.
For each count, an offender can be jailed for up to one year or fined up to $ 1,000.
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