Opposition member and Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) Leong Mun Wai has been elected as Progress Singapore Party’s new secretary-general today.
Leong, 64, will be taking after former secretary-general Francis Yuen who stepped down last month. Leong was formerly the party’s assistant secretary-general until he relinquished the role to focus on his NCMP duties in July 2020.
“I thank the [Central Elective Committee] for placing its trust in me, and I look forward to bringing the Party to greater heights,” Leong wrote.
Fellow NCMP member Hazel Poa will return to her Vice-Chairman position after stepping down in 2020 to focus on her NCMP duties.
The party’s new Central Elective Committee also consists of First Assistant Secretary-General Nadarajah Loganathan, Second Assistant Secretary-General Ang Yong Guan, as well as A’bas bin Kasmani and Tan Chika. The committee will serve for the next two years.
Progress Singapore Party (PSP) was founded in 2019 by chairman Tan Cheng Bock.
Tan, Poa and Leong lost to Peoples’ Action Party with 48.31% of the votes in the 2020 General Election while competing for the West Coast GRC.
Leong recently caused quite a bit of a stir in Parliament last month when he talked back to Parliament Speaker Tan Chuan-Jin during an intense debate with Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam.
He was also mocked by a fellow politician for his capabilities as a politician.
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