Progress Singapore Party’s Leong Mun Wai, Hazel Poa to take up NCMP seats
Tuesday, 14 Jul 2020 04:39 PM MYT
PSP secretary-general Tan Cheng Bock announced his party’s choices for the posts at a press conference at the party’s headquarters in Bukit Timah Shopping Centre. Throughout the campaign, the former People’s Action Party Member of Parliament of 26 years had said repeatedly that he would not take up an NCMP seat, as he had already had his time in Parliament as an elected MP.
PSP’s choices for the NCMP seats — Mr Leong and Ms Poa, 50 — are former government scholars who contested the West Coast Group Representation Constituency in the July 10 General Election .
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