WP's Pritam Singh, Sylvia Lim re-elected, ex-MP Lee Li Lian returns to CEC
SINGAPORE - Workers’ Party (WP) secretary-general Pritam Singh and chairman Sylvia Lim were returned to their posts at the party’s biennial conference on June 30, paving the way for them to lead the opposition party into the next general election.
The party’s cadres also re-elected the other WP MPs into the central executive committee (CEC), along with former party chief Low Thia Khiang, 68, in an internal election marked by continuity.
The MPs are Aljunied GRC MPs Faisal Manap, 49, and Gerald Giam, 47; Sengkang GRC MPs He Ting Ru, 41, Louis Chua, 37, and Jamus Lim, 48, and Hougang MP Dennis Tan, 54.
Party sources told The Straits Times that Ms Lim, 59, was again challenged by long-time WP member Tan Bin Seng, but prevailed with about two-thirds of the vote to retain the post of party chair, which she has held since 2003.
Mr Singh, 48, returned unopposed.
There was a new addition to the CEC - former Punggol East MP Lee Li Lian, 46, who had stepped down from the party’s top decision-making body in 2020. The CEC lineup remains unchanged, apart from Ms Lee returning.