‘Unacceptable’: Singapore opposition figures Leon Perera and Nicole Seah resign over affair as political intrigue deepens
- Both members have left the Workers’ Party after a video emerged online showing the duo behaving in an intimate manner
- The development comes as the city state reels from a highly unusual series of misdeeds among MPs from both the long-ruling People’s Action Party and the Workers’ Party
Leon Perera, 53 – one of the party’s nine MPs in the 93-seat legislature – as well as the charismatic youth wing chair Nicole Seah, 36, tendered their resignation after a video emerged online showing the duo behaving in an intimate manner.
Both Perera and Seah are married, and both have two children.
Party leader Pritam Singh said if the politicians had not willingly resigned, he would have proposed their dismissal to the central executive committee. The reason for this stance was their dishonesty when initially questioned about allegations of an affair that surfaced following the city state’s 2020 general election, he said.
“Leon’s conduct, in not being truthful when asked by the party leadership about the allegations, fell short of standards expected of WP MPs. This is unacceptable,” Singh said in the press conference.
The latest development comes as the island republic reels from a highly unusual series of misdeeds among MPs from both the long-ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) and the WP.