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SINGAPORE: Workers\u2019 Party (WP) secretary-general Pritam Singh has survived a secret vote on his leadership at the opposition party\u2019s special cadres conference on Sunday (Jun 28), with no challengers to his position.<\/span><\/p>\n The party also held its biennial elections, at which Mr Singh was returned as secretary-general and Ms Sylvia Lim was re-elected as chair of the central executive committee (CEC).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Cadres also elected 12 other members, including former chief Low Thia Khiang and lawyer Harpreet Singh, to the party\u2019s top decision-making body.<\/span><\/p>\n The other CEC members are:<\/span> Several former CEC members were not elected but may be co-opted later. They include Non-Constituency MP Andre Low, Aljunied GRC MP Fadli Fawzi, Mr Nathaniel Koh, Mr Ang Boon Yaw, Mr Kenneth Foo and Ms Lee Li Lian.<\/p>\n At the cadre conference, Mr Singh gave an account of the December 2025 court decision and took questions from cadres, said Mr Giam. The discussion was robust and civil, and Mr Singh answered all questions put to him, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n Cadres then voted \u2013 “well in excess of the supermajority” \u2013 for Mr Singh to remain secretary-general, Mr Giam said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThis reflects the party\u2019s commitment to the democratic process and due process given to Mr Singh, and to everybody who wanted to requisition this special meeting,\u201d said Mr Giam, who was among those re-elected to the CEC.<\/span><\/p>\n The outcome reflected the “considered judgment” of WP’s cadres, the party said in a statement. The subsequent election of a new CEC had established a clear democratic mandate for the next term, it added.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe party is united behind its leadership and remains fully focused on its work for all Singaporeans in parliament and on the ground. We continue the work of building a more balanced political system for Singapore.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: Workers\u2019 Party (WP) secretary-general Pritam Singh has survived a secret vote on his leadership at the opposition party\u2019s special cadres conference on Sunday (Jun…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
MP Abdul Muhaimin Abdul Malik
MP Louis Chua Kheng Wee
MP Dennis Tan Lip Fong\u00a0
MP He Ting Ru
MP Jamus Lim\u00a0
MP Kenneth Tiong\u00a0
MP Gerald Giam
NCMP Eileen Chong Pei Shan\u00a0
Mr Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap\u00a0
Mr Tan Kong Soon<\/p>\n
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