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SINGAPORE \u2013 Transport Minister Jeffrey Siow, a first-term MP and newly promoted minister<\/span><\/a>, has been co-opted to the PAP\u2019s top leadership body, along with three others.<\/p>\n In a press release on Nov 5, the party announced it had co-opted Siow along with Chan Hui Yuh, Ng Chee Meng and Sim Ann.<\/p>\n Chan is also new to the party\u2019s central executive committee (CEC), while Ng and Sim were similarly co-opted onto the previous leadership body in 2024<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n Chan is a longtime opposition ward candidate, while Ng is Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Office and labour chief. Sim is Second Minister for Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs.<\/p>\n The four join another 14 members previously elected and co-opted into the CEC at the party\u2019s internal election on Oct 25<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n This brings the leadership body up to its maximum size of 18.<\/p>\n The CEC met on Nov 5, and also parcelled out its various party offices, the party statement said.<\/p>\n There was no change among the top roles, with Education Minister Desmond Lee continuing as party chair.<\/p>\n Minister for Social and Family Development Masagos Zulkifli continues as vice-chair, while Defence Minister Chan Chun Sing remains assistant secretary-general.<\/p>\n Health Minister Ong Ye Kung was reappointed treasurer.<\/p>\n But there was some movement among the heads of the party\u2019s internal bodies, with first-term MPs and political office-holders taking the lead.<\/p>\n David Neo, who is Minister for Culture, Community and Youth has taken over as the head of the PAP senior\u2019s group, and Goh Pei Ming, a senior minister of state, now leads the PAP\u2019s climate action group.<\/p>\n Neo took over from Tan See Leng, while Goh fills the spot left by Koh Poh Koon<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n Minister of state Dinesh Vasu Dash has also been appointed an assistant organising secretary \u2013 one of three. The other two are Alex Yam and Desmond Tan, who were reappointed.<\/p>\n Dinesh succeeds Low Yen Ling and Tan Kiat How in the role which involves coordinating the party\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n All three men were elected, along with Siow, at the 2025 General Election and put into Government months later at a Cabinet reshuffle<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 Transport Minister Jeffrey Siow, a first-term MP and newly promoted minister, has been co-opted to the PAP\u2019s top leadership body, along with three…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97753,"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-97752","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\/97752","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=97752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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