Singapore’s Workers’ Party rejects Leader of the Opposition position

Singapore’s biggest opposition party, the Workers’ Party, has said it will not be nominating a replacement for the position of the Leader of the Opposition. In a media statement issued on Wednesday, the party said it had responded to Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s invitation to nominate another elected MP to fill the vacancy. Wong removed WP chief Pritam Singh from his position as Leader of the Opposition last Thursday, following Singh’s court conviction for lying under oath to a parliamentary...