Can Singaporeโs opposition Workersโ Party ride out scandal of its lying lawmaker Raeesah Khan?
A snowballing controversy involving a lawmaker who resigned after lying in parliament is threatening the Singaporean opposition leader, Pritam Singh, less than 18 months after his party made historic electoral gains with the backing of the city stateโs younger generation.
The saga initially seemed to only involve Raeesah Khan โ a darling among Gen Z and millennial voters โ but an ongoing parliamentary inquiry into the case has dragged Singh and other high-ranking leaders of the Workersโ Party (WP) into the picture.
In a nine-hour testimony last Friday before the parliamentary Committee of Privileges, Singh repeatedly denied suggestions that he acted improperly by failing to take Raeesah to task even though he and two other top party leaders knew within days that her August 3 speech about the police mishandling a sexual assault case contained falsehoods.
Apart from scrutinising Raeesahโs breach of parliamentary rules, the committee โ made up primarilyโฆ
The imbecilic Edwin Tong appears a lot more relaxed and in his element during the latest grilling of a much less adversarial Raeesah Khunt. ;)