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GE 2006: James Gomez Saga
Gomez caused a stir during the last GE when he claimed to submit his form for the minority-race candidate application form in 2006. He was a WP candidate for Aljunied GRC.
Gomez claimed to have submitted his minority certificate form to the Elections department on April 24. He was accompanied by Worker's Party Chairman Sylvia Lim and was filmed by media cameras as he filled up the form. However, after the media and his Chairman left, he forgot to submit his forms. This was later evidenced by CCTV footage which showed that he kept the form in an envelope in his bag, and left the building without submitting the form.
On April 26, James Gomez called the elections department to enquire about the status of the form. He was indignant that the board said they had not received the form. He even reminded the ELD officer of the "consequences" of misplacing his form, pointing to the CCTV nearby.
On April 27, the Elections Department confirmed through CCTV that Gomez did not submit a "minority-race candidate application form", despite claiming on the eve of Nomination Day that he had done so.[4]
On April 29, Gomez eventually admitted that he did not file the application, contrary to earlier claims. Gomez said he was distracted by his busy schedule. [5]
On May 6, the Elections Department filed a complaint about Gomez. Shortly after, he was stopped at the immigration counter as he was leaving the country at Changi Airport.
After the complaint, police began their probe into offences of criminal intimidation, giving false information and using threatening words and behaviour.
Mr Gomez was questioned three times. Also interviewed were department staff, WP secretary-general Low Thia Khiang and chairman Sylvia Lim. Ang Mo Kio MP-elect Inderjit Singh and retiree Thiayagarajah Karthigesu, an assenter for PAP candidates contesting in Ang Mo Kio also spoke to investigators.
Mr Inderjit had said previously that on April 27 Mr Gomez told him that the minority certificate incident was just a 'wayang', or Malay for theatre - comments Mr Thiayagarajah also heard.
The police said statements Mr Gomez gave 'contained serious inconsistencies and discrepancies'. When taken with statements of others - including Mr Singh and Mr Thiayagarajah - it 'put into question the real truth'.[6]Police investigation
On May 8, 2006, one day after the elections, Gomez was stopped from leaving Singapore, on the grounds that the police were investigating a complaint of "criminal intimidation" against him in relation to his comments to the electoral board staff.
He and other members of the Workers' Party, including Sylvia Lim and Low Thia Kiang, were questioned extensively on the issue.[7]
On May 9, 2006. Gomez was questioned for a second time for five hours,[8] and for a third time on May 10, 2006 for three hours.[9] Meanwhile, Low assured police that there would be full co-operation with the police on the matter.[10]
Gomez was given a "stern warning" for his behaviour at the Elections Department. The police maintained that there were "several serious inconsistencies". However the Public Prosecutor claimed that the willingness of Gomez to cooperate with the police and the lack of a previous criminal record led to the decision.[11]
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