Yahoo! News Singapore, 21 Jan 2012All is not well within the Singapore People’s Party (SPP) — and all this barely a week before its party congress.
Rising differences within its leadership came to a head on Friday, when the SPP’s first assistant secretary-general Wilfred Leung, who was widely-tipped to succeed veteran leader Chiam See Tong as the party’s next secretary-general, told its central executive committee (CEC) that he does not intend to accept nominations to the committee for the coming two-year term.
Yahoo! Singapore understands that at least three other key members of the CEC plan to either resign from the party or decline nomination or being co-opted into the committee for the new term. Full story
