Leong Mun Wai scolded again in Parliament, this time for video published on PSP's Facebook page - Singapore News

SINGAPORE: Progress Singapore Party’s newly minted chief Leong Mun Wai has found himself in the crosshairs of the ruling party once again over a video posted on his party’s Facebook page.

In Parliament today, Ms Indranee said that the video breached parliamentary privileges and immunities as it “gives a false impression of what occurred in Parliament.” Noting that this was not the first time Mr Leong had breached parliamentary privileges, with the previous occasion involving a post published on his own Facebook page, Ms Indranee said that this latest post gives the false impression that the Deputy Speaker prevented the discussion from being completed and that Mr Leong was not allowed to ask questions.

Ms Indranee added that freedom of speech should not be misused to make false statements, maliciously slander others or distort facts such as what happened in Parliament. “Did the minister assume that the ‘sia suay’ refers to the deputy speaker? We have no intention of saying that at all. The ‘sia suay’ is what people in the public has used to refer to me.”

The Progress Singapore Party removed the video last night , just three minutes before a deadline issued by Leader of the House and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Indranee Rajah expired.

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