ST publishes correction on IPS Research Fellow’s op-ed after call out from Pritam Singh

In a subscribers-only piece titled ‘Creating forward momentum for next GE when Lawrence Wong is PM,’ Dr Gillian Koh, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies at the National University of Singapore wrote, “The WP said it will tilt towards the strategy of fighting to form the Government at the next GE.”

On his Facebook page, Mr Singh stated categorically, “This is false,” adding that the WP has made clear that its medium-term goal is to do its part in ensuring that at least one-third of Parliament would not be members of the ruling People’s Action Party . Pritam Singh issues correction notice on ST piece that said WP is ‘fighting to form the Government at the next GE’A few hours after Mr Singh put up his post, Dr Koh apologised in a comment, adding that the sentence had been amended to read: “The WP has said its medium-term electoral goal is to help deny the PAP a two-third majority in Parliament needed for constitutional amendments.”She immediately responded to this by thanking him for pointing out the error and apologised again.

Other commenters on Mr Singh’s post wondered whether ST would also publish a correction to Dr Koh’s post, which it did on Thursday morning . Under the heading “What it should have been,” the correction reads, “Our Apr 17 commentary, ‘Creating forward momentum for next GE when Lawrence Wong is leader,’ had wrongly noted that the Workers’ Party said it will tilt towards the strategy of fighting to form the government at the next GE. This is inaccurate. The WP has said its medium-term electoral goal is to help deny the PAP a two-thirds majority in Parliament needed for constitutional amendments. We are sorry for the error.

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