ABSTRACT Although opposition parties in Singapore do not win a large share of votes in parliamentary elections, opposition rallies draw massive turnouts and vociferous expressions of support. Few analyses of Singapore’s elections have addressed the political significance of these popular mobilisations. This article brings the concept of post-politics to an analysis of the 2015 election, to develop an interpretive framework that accounts for the apparent paradox. I show, firstly, how elections are constructed by the PAP government as a post-political exercise, in which citizens’ practical interests in the efficient administration of their country should override any principled or ideological objections they have to the PAP’s mode of government and prompt them to return the ruling party to power. Through a reading of the opposition’s rally speeches, audience responses and interviews with party volunteers, I then show how opposition rallies create spaces where it becomes momentarily possible for citizens to publicly and performatively assert those aspects of their political subjectivity which this reductive construction of their vote elides. The concept of post-politics allows us to see how these officially sanctioned events become spaces that allow for the staging of popular political discontent, which the regular institutions of government do not permit.

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后政治选举：反对党集会作为新加坡的民众动员

摘要 虽然新加坡的反对党在议会选举中没有赢得很大份额的选票，但反对派集会吸引了大量投票者和大声表示支持。对新加坡选举的分析很少涉及这些民众动员的政治意义。本文将后政治的概念引入 2015 年大选的分析中，以开发一个解释框架来解释明显的悖论。首先，我展示了人民行动党政府如何将选举构建为一种后政治运动，在这种运动中，公民在有效管理国家方面的实际利益应该凌驾于他们对人民行动党政府模式的任何原则或意识形态上的反对，并迅速他们让执政党重新掌权。通过阅读反对派的集会演讲，观众的反应和对政党志愿者的采访，然后我展示了反对派集会如何创造空间，让公民暂时可以公开和表演性地断言他们的政治主体性的那些方面，而这种简化的投票结构却忽略了这些方面。后政治的概念使我们能够看到这些官方批准的事件如何成为允许民众政治不满情绪上演的空间，而这是常规政府机构所不允许的。