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* [[GE2006]] contested [[Aljunied GRC]] as part of WP | * [[GE2006]] contested [[Aljunied GRC]] as part of WP | ||
* [[GE2011]] contested [[Tampines GRC]] as part of NSP team | * [[GE2011]] contested [[Tampines GRC]] as part of NSP team | ||
* in May 2015, announced that he was setting up the People's Power Party ({{g |PPP}}) with himself as secretary-general | * in May 2015, announced that he was setting up the People's Power Party ({{g |PPP}}) with himself as secretary-general, prompted by [[Lee Kuan Yew]]'s death that year | ||
* [[GE2015]] contested [[Chua Chu Kang GRC]] with his PPP team | * [[GE2015]] contested [[Chua Chu Kang GRC]] with his PPP team | ||
* [[GE2020]] contested the [[MacPherson SMC]] against PAP's [[Tin Pei Ling]] | * [[GE2020]] contested the [[MacPherson SMC]] against PAP's [[Tin Pei Ling]] | ||
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Goh left the Workers' Party (WP) in 2006 after the election due to "some Internet postings which had tarnished the WP's reputation" despite being a member of the central executive committee (CEC) and a member of the "A team" of the Workers' Party. He Then joined the National Solidarity Party ({{g |NSP}}) and became its secretary-general. | Goh left the Workers' Party (WP) in 2006 after the election due to "some Internet postings which had tarnished the WP's reputation" despite being a member of the central executive committee (CEC)<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110512042038/http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-southeastasia.asp?parentid=57246</ref> and a member of the "A team" of the Workers' Party. He Then joined the National Solidarity Party ({{g |NSP}}) and became its secretary-general. Subsequently, he left NSP after the 2011 election. | ||
He also made a number of other controversial comments online, one of which was suggesting in his blog that the NSP exacts "revenge" on the WP by contesting the Hougang SMC, after a by-election was triggered due to [[Yaw Shin Leong]]'s party sacking.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200920180253/https://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120323-335311.html</ref> | |||
During the Covid-19 pandemic, he was known for his anti-vaccine stance and was twice issued POFMA corrections: | |||
# In December 2021, POFMA correction was issued to him for making misleading claims in a FB video that HIV and COVID-19, two viruses from unrelated families could recombine and for discouraging people from taking the COVID-19 vaccine<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250311211354/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/pofma-covid-19-goh-meng-seng-facebook-video-hiv-omicron-vaccine-2357311</ref> | |||
# 14 October 2022, he was issued a POFMA correction for sharing an article from the Thailand Medical News that claimed that "increased disease severity of COVID-19 is becoming a common occurrence" due to the SARS-CoV-2 XBB Recombinant Variant and that "mortuaries, funeral parlours, and crematoria are facing a ‘pile up’ in cases."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250311211645/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/pofma-correction-direction-xbb-variant-goh-meng-seng-hardwarezone-thailand-medical-news-3007576</ref> | |||
== Personal life == | == Personal life == | ||