SINGAPORE: Workers’ Party secretary-general Pritam Singh will take on more duties and be accorded additional privileges in his role as the Leader of the Opposition, authorities said on Tuesday in a statement laying out the details of the new post. He will also receive double the allowance of an elected Member of Parliament .
To enable him to carry out his duties, Mr Singh will be given parliamentary privileges, a larger allowance and resources to hire extra staff. In addition to the government data or information available to other MPs, Mr Singh will receive confidential briefings by the Government on “select matters of national security and external relations, and in the event of a national crisis or emergency”.
The Workers’ Party had won a second GRC in Sengkang and 10 seats in Parliament, up from six in the previous election.READ: GE2020 - PAP has a ‘clear mandate’, but popular vote share ‘not as high’ as hoped: PM Lee Singapore’s legislatures have never had formally designated leaders of the opposition, and such a position is not provided for in the Constitution or the Standing Orders of Parliament, the parliamentary offices said in its statement on Tuesday.
It added that former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew led the People’s Action Party as the largest opposition party in the Legislative Assembly between 1955 and 1959, and Dr Lee Siew Choh led the Barisan Sosialis as the largest opposition party in the Legislative Assembly between 1961 and 1963. Neither Mr Lee nor Dr Lee were formally designated Leader of the Opposition.
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