inSing.com, 9 Mar 2012Responding to WP's Sylvia Lim's query on whether he agrees there's an "underrepresentation of Hougang voters in Parliament" due to the vacant seat; PM Lee said the issue exists because the Workers' Party had caused the situation.
The TV station quoted him as saying, "Whether there is a under-representation of the interests of the voters of Hougang as a result of this, I do not know that. If that is an issue, I would have thought it is something which the Workers' Party would have considered before deciding to expel Mr Yaw Shin Leong.So if we are in this situation today, it is because the Workers' Party has caused this situation to happen knowing the consequences. " Full story
