Feuding Singapore siblings make last pitch to seize narrative before Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong faces lawmakers’ questions

The feuding children of Singapore’s late independence leader Lee Kuan Yew were on Sunday battling to seize the narrative in their public squabble over the patriarch’s legacy, as his eldest son Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong readied for a parliamentary debate over the abuse of power accusations by his siblings.

The Premier’s brother Lee Hsien Yang launched a fresh social media broadside on Sunday morning in a bid to make his case again before the highly anticipated legislative sitting on Monday at 11am. It came less than a day after he posted an impassioned three-page statement explaining why he was speaking up, after many had asked aloud if there were deeper reasons prompting his sister and him to take their fight into the open.

Over the weekend, a poll released in Singapore showed nearly eight out of 10 Singaporeans felt that the saga had hurt the Lion City’s international standing.

In the new Facebook post – the two siblings’ 40th since going public on June 14 – Lee Hsien Yang slammed Lee Hsien Loong for orchestrating an “extrajudicial secret attack” with the help of his ministerial colleagues in order to browbeat him and their sister.

At the heart of the bitter dispute being played out on social media is the fate of the near-century old family bungalow at 38 Oxley Road, which Lee Kuan Yew called home for seven decades.