The People's Liberal Democratic Party (

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: PLDP) is a dormant

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

. It was formed by

Ooi Boon Ewe Stephen Ooi Boon Ewe (; born 14 November 1941) is a Singaporean politician and a perennial candidate. He is most notable for attempting to contest various elections, general and presidential, without a record of success. He attempted to contest ...

, an independent candidate in the 2001 general election in Singapore. The party was approved in the midst of the 2006 general election hustling, but was days late for nomination. The party's current status is unknown.

2006 and 2011 elections

As PLDP was registered after nomination day for the 2006 general election, Ooi was not able to contest the election under the PLDP banner. PLDP attempted to contest in the 2011 general election, with Ooi running for the

Sengkang West Single Member Constituency Sengkang West Single Member Constituency was a single member constituency located in the north-eastern region of Singapore. The constituency covers the western area of Sengkang, between Sengkang East Road and Fernvale Road. In 2011, the constitu ...

. However, on Nomination Day, Ooi's assentor did not turn up, leading to Ooi publicly appealing to the opposition's supporters to be his assentor but to be rejected by the crowd. He subsequently shed tears over again the inability to participate in elections, being in his 70s and having desired to become a Member of Parliament. Later in 2011, Ooi resigned as PLDP's chairman to contest in the 2011 presidential election as the presidential candidate must be a non-partisan member.

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Background of PLDP
* ttp://www.elections.gov.sg/elections_results2011.html#S Sengkang West SMC's result in 2011 GE after the absence of PLDP{{Singaporean political parties 2006 establishments in Singapore Political parties established in 2006 Political parties in Singapore Social democratic parties in Asia Socialist parties in Singapore