Progress Singapore Party introduces new faces

Social media clip, video series show them walking the ground with party members

- Goh Yan Han Political Correspondent and Ng Wei Kai

Residents across Singapore and followers of the Progress Singapore Party (PSP) on social media have, in recent months, been introduced to new faces in the party's ranks.

Among them are a writer, a businessman and two former Workers' Party (WP) volunteers.

The first two - Ms Stella Stan Lee and Mr Lawrence Pek, former secretary-general of the Singapore Manufacturing Federation - featured in a Dec 2 clip posted on social media.

Sporting batik tops, they were seen distributing reusable bags with party leaders Tan Cheng Bock, Hazel Poa and Leong Mun Wai at Geylang Serai Market and Food Centre.

Two other faces stand out in a video series the political party has been putting out, titled Volunteers Of PSP.

They are Ms Angela Oon, who contested Nee Soon GRC in 2011 under the WP flag, and Mr Sumarleki Amjah, a former WP volunteer.

Like former Aljunied GRC MP Leon Perera, they appear to have switched their political allegiance in recent years. Mr Perera left the WP in 2023 and has since been spotted with PSP leaders at various events, including its 2024 National Day dinner.

Also featured in both the Dec 2 clip and the video series is Ms Anna Ravichandran, a director with Singapore-based logistics and export firm Raj Global Enterprise. She is on the executive committee of the PSP's youth wing.

The series, which has three videos so far, shows PSP's volunteers walking the ground alongside some of the party's former election candidates.

Much of the action takes place in Boon Lay, Teban Gardens and Telok Blangah, all of which are part of West Coast GRC.

The PSP contested and lost the constituency to the People's Action Party (PAP) in the 2020 General Election.

The ruling party won 51.69 per cent of the vote there, in the tightest race of the election.