Both resigned from the party, and Leon Perera has also resigned his seat in Parliament
SINGAPORE: The Workers’ Party announced during a press conference on Wednesday that Aljunied GRC MP Leon Perera and senior Workers’ Party member Nicole Seah were asked to resign and step down from their positions.
Allegations about the duo frequenting hotels and behaving inappropriately with each other since mid-2020 had made their rounds among WP members, and the issue was brought up to party leaders around early 2021. Perera was mentoring Seah at the time, and while it was expected that they would spend more time with each other, rumours circulating at the time said some felt there was more happening between the pair.
It started in 2020 but “stopped sometime ago”. Leon said he should have been more forthcoming with information.Leon Perera made his first political appearance when he ran as a candidate for East Coast during the 2015 general election. He subsequently became a Non-Constituency MP before joining the WP’s winning slate for its Aljunied stronghold at the 2020 polls.
Seah, 36, joined the WP in 2015 after stints with the Reform Party and National Solidarity Party. She shot to online fame as the youngest female candidate at the 2011 general election and went on a hiatus before returning as a WP candidate for East Coast at the 2020 polls.
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