SINGAPORE – Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh’s conviction has implications for party leaders Sylvia Lim and Faisal Manap which will be part of upcoming discussions in Parliament, said Leader of the House Indranee Rajah.
All three WP MPs had disputed the findings of a 2022 report by the Committee of Privileges (COP) regarding their involvement in former MP Raeesah Khan’s lies to the House, hence Parliament had postponed making a decision then, she noted in a statement on Dec 22.
Now that Mr Singh’s court case has concluded and he has been found guilty of lying, these matters will be raised for discussion in January, she said.
“The COP’s findings have been borne out by the Court judgments,” she added.
The parliamentary committee had said in its report that if the three leaders had guided Ms Khan to repeat her lie in Parliament, then such conduct would be unbecoming of a parliamentarian, and would amount to contempt of Parliament.
Ms Lim is the party’s chair while Mr Faisal is vice-chair.
Ms Indranee was responding to media queries after her statement on Dec 17 that Parliament will discuss in January an “appropriate response” to Mr Singh’s conviction for lying to the COP.
The COP had in February 2022 released a report which said the “appropriate sanctions” for the three WP leaders for their roles in Ms Khan’s untruths to the House and to the COP would be deferred until the end of investigations or criminal proceedings against Mr Singh.
