PM Wong cited some Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures between 2022 and 2024. He illustrated that even as GST was increased by 1 percentage point each in January 2023 and January 2024, the CPI inflation in Singapore went down from 6.1 per cent in 2022 to 4.8 per cent in 2023 and 2.4 per cent in 2024.
Speaking in Parliament on February 26, addressing the Singapore Budget 2025 presented by Prime Minister and Finance Lawrence Wong last week, Pritam Singh criticised the Singapore Government’s decision to raise the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in 2023 and 2024, stating that these moves had fanned the “flames of inflation”. The country’s “exceedingly healthy fiscal position” made the GST hikes unnecessary, he said.
Speaker Seah told Parliament that the Singapore Attorney General’s Chambers had advised that the SGD 10,000 cut-off — one of the disqualification criteria for an MP — was based on the court penalty for one single offence, not for the cumulative penalties for two offences.
The months-long trial of Pritam Singh, the 48-year-old Secretary General of the Workers’ Party and Leader of the Opposition in Singapore Parliament, has resulted in his conviction today. He has 14 days to file an appeal once the sentencing is done. During the course of today’s verdict hearing, the judge said that Singh had “wilfully” […]
This verdict comes at a crucial time, as general elections are set to be held in Singapore by the second half of 2025, and a conviction could see the Leader of the Opposition barred from contesting the elections.
The Workers’ Party leader appeared in court on November 5 to testify following the ruling by Deputy Principal District Judge Luke Tan that there was a case for Singh to answer for both the charges against him. The trial began on October 14.
The charges against Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh, 48, relate to what he said before a Committee of Privileges of the Singapore Parliament. The committee questioned Singh regarding a lie that his party colleague and former MP Raeesah Khan told the Singapore Parliament in 2021.
Pritam Singh’s lawyers, Andre Darius Jumabhoy and Aristotle Emmanuel Eng, relied on the case of former Singapore transport minister S Iswaran, which has been rescheduled for hearing in the High Court in September 2024.
Singapore was witnessing “tectonic shifts”, Leader of Opposition Pritam Singh has said his party will work towards creating greater understanding and mutual respect for everybody and ending bigotry and racism in the city-state.
In the recently held election on July 10, Workers’ Party won 10 parliamentary seats out of the 93 contested, making it the biggest opposition presence in Singapore’s Parliament.
