The Usual Place Podcast: What's next for PSP following its post-GE leadership shake-up?
What's next for PSP following its post-GE leadership shake-up?
Synopsis: Join Natasha Ann Zachariah at The Usual Place as she unpacks the latest current affairs with guests.
Two months after its dismal showing at the 2025 General Election, Progress Singapore Party (PSP) has shaken up its leadership team.
On July 5,
it announced that its
founder and chairman Tan Cheng Bock, and vice-chair Hazel Poa
had
stepped down from their roles in the central executive committee (CEC), the party's highest decision-making body. Party treasurer S. Nallakaruppan also relinquished his position.
All three will remain members of the party. Dr Tan has been designated party adviser. Ms Poa was a Non-Constituency MP (NCMP) in the last term of Parliament, along with party chief Leong Mun Wai.
At a press conference at the party's headquarters in Bukit Timah Shopping Centre on July 5, Mr Leong announced a renewal plan, and introduced three new members who were co-opted into the CEC.
The first is Ms Stephanie Tan, a full-time homemaker and former lawyer, who was the PSP candidate for Pioneer SMC.
The other two are Mr Sani Ismail, an in-house legal counsel who contested West Coast-Jurong West GRC, and Mr Lawrence Pek, a former secretary-general of the Singapore Manufacturing Federation, who contested Chua Chu Kang GRC.
Ms Tan joins me in this podcast to talk about being part of PSP's refreshed leadership team, the insights she gleaned from walking the ground as a first-time candidate, and the challenges of a political party without a presence in Parliament.
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