Chee Soon Juan a changed man?

In an interview with Wanbao, he said that he was proud of his past deeds and there was nothing to be sorry about. 

If he is proud of his past, then he is still the same Chee Soon Juan . He has not changed one bit. 

There is no basis for change if one does not feel sorry about anything. There is no basis for change if one is proud of one's past.

If the past is something to be proud of, why does Chee Soon Juan work so hard to portray himself as a changed man?

Because he knows that Singaporeans will not accept the Chee Soon Juan that they knew from the past.

In order to win votes, he knows he has to portray himself differently to make himself acceptable to voters. But that portrayal is just a deception.

Character is permanent.

Chee Soon Juan has not changed and his mission has not changed. 

His mission is to fight for his liberal idea of democracy. Bukit Batok is not his concern. Bukit Batok is just an opportunity to him, a chance to get into Parliament for his mission. 

Q: On what you said about how Dr Chee has changed his image, but inside he hasn’t changed, would you be concerned if he were to be elected?

PM Lee: Yes, I would be concerned. Because it will mean that there is somebody that’s being elected who is able to just gloss over bad things which have been done, and which he has not come to terms with or acknowledged, and he’s now presenting himself as a new man – reinvented – and yet, unchanged, and unregretful and unrepentant.

And I think it’s not possible, if you are a changed person, well then there must be a basis on which you say: ‘What I did previously, I regret, I’m sorry, I now resolve to go in a different direction, I resolve to be a different sort of leader.' But here he told the Wanbao: ‘I don’t regret anything which I did, all my crazy history, I’m proud of what I had done, and I am what I am’.

But actually, he is not what he is, because what he says is one thing, but the reality is quite different, and what he did yesterday at the rally, allowing his colleagues to hit at David Ong in a most unbecoming manner, and then he comes along in benign, almost beatific way, and say: ‘We must not hit people who are down, that’s very bad, anyone can make mistakes – even good people,’ I think it shows that his character has not changed.
                                 
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 Because his mission is really to fight for his liberal idea of democracy, he appears wherever an opportunity presents for him to try to get to Parliament. That is why in every election that he has contested in the past, he has gone from one constituency to another, appearing only during election time and completely disappears once he has lost. 

The interests of the residents are not his concern. The constituency is just a stepping stone for him to go to parliament.