In his greatest test since taking the helm of the Workers’ Party (WP) in 2018, secretary general Pritam Singh has survived by a landslide a vote of no confidence within his party, inside sources have confirmed.
The Aljunied MP, who leads Singapore’s most prominent opposition party, faced a special conference on Sunday morning called by 25 cadre members who were pushing for him to step down for breaching the WP’s constitution.
Sources confirmed that about 79 per cent of the 107 cadres present voted in favour of Singh, 49. He later ran unopposed and was re-elected as secretary general at the party’s biennial ordinary cadres’ meeting on Sunday afternoon to elect the WP’s leadership.
Singh told reporters after the conferences that procedures under the party’s constitution were followed, adding that the WP accepted the democratic process and the election result.
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