SINGAPORE - Former Workers' Party (WP) chief Low Thia Khiang has confirmed that he will not be participating in the next general election.
Former WP chief Low Thia Khiang said he was already retired and there is a younger generation that can move the party forward.SINGAPORE - Former Workers' Party chief Low Thia Khiang has confirmed that he will not be participating in the next general election.
Low has been seen at various WP walkabouts, Hammer newsletter sales and on the party's social media in recent months, even after stepping away from electoral politics in 2020. This has prompted speculation in some quarters that the party elder could return as a candidate in the upcoming general election.Singapore must hold its next general election by November 2025.
He left his seat in Hougang to contest Aljunied GRC as part of a team together with Pritam Singh, Sylvia Lim, Faisal Manap and Chen Show Mao at the 2011 General Election. The WP team won the contest, becoming the first opposition team to win in a GRC. Low stepped down from his position as the WP's secretary-general in 2018 to pave the way for Singh to take over as the party's leader. He said he felt that he had achieved his goal of securing a GRC for the WP and renewing the leadership of the party.
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