DECEMBER 5 — Singapore’s Opposition Workers’ Party found itself under further pressure last week when it emerged that senior party members were aware that MP Raeesah Khan had fabricated a story she told in Parliament and encouraged her not to admit her lie but to stick to it.
Government MPs claimed that there were no police cases matching the description of the case she spoke about. Eventually Raeesah admitted that her story had been fabricated. The Workers’ Party must have hoped this would bring an end to this damaging saga but the situation has instead deteriorated further. Speaking to the Parliamentary Privileges Committee, she has now said that senior party members including Workers’ Party leader Pritam Singh were aware of her false statement and encouraged her to continue in the lie.
As the Workers’ Party went from strength to strength, more Singaporeans began to see them as a real alternative to the entrenched PAP government. But now the whole party and the broader movement to move Singapore towards a truly plural democracy faces a crisis.The government will, of course, seize on Raeesah’s admission and the idea that the Opposition party leadership was in some way complicit.
It is safe to assume the ruling PAP and its affiliated media and social media channels will be relentless, and it is hard to see a good outcome for the Opposition at the moment but the Workers’ Party has recovered from setbacks before.
after being told by the Workers' Party's central executive committee that she could either resign or be expelled from the party...kurtezee frm wikipedia
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