Just moments after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong officially called for elections yesterday, the Workers’ Party teased a dozen new faces voters can expect to see campaigning in the coming weeks.
The 15-second video titled GE2020: Coming Soon was posted within the hour of the announcement. It showed familiar faces such as party chairperson Sylvia Lim, Secretary-General Pritam Singh and Nicole Seah, who last contested in Marine Parade in 2011 under the National Solidarity Party. She was known as the youngest female candidate then.
Seah, 33, joined the Worker’s Party in 2015.
The party told reporters yesterday that its 20 candidates will be contesting five constituencies – Aljunied, East Coast, Marine Parade, Sengkang GRCs as well as the Hougang single-member constituency. In the previous election of 2015, they contested 10 constituencies with 28 candidates. Of those, the party placed a distant second, winning only two with six seats.
This is the first time that the party will go into elections with Pritam Singh at the helm after former party chief Low Thia Khiang stepped down in 2018.
Singh was recently caught in an online banter with Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam over playwright Alfian Sa’at’s patriotism.
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