GE2020: Lee Hsien Yang joins PSP but unclear if he will run for GE via yahoosg
The youngest child of Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and younger brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was at a breakfast meeting with opposition leader Dr Tan Cheng Bock at Tiong Bahru Market on Wednesday morning .On Tuesday, it was announced that nomination day would be on 30 June. Parties running for the elections will be campaigning then and stop for a single cooling-off day before Singaporeans head to the polls on 10 July.
Lee Hsien Yang first stated his full support for PSP in a Facebook post on 28 July last year, days after Dr Tan launched his party. Last year, Lee Hsien Yang helped fund prominent civil activists involved in court cases. These include activist Jolovan Wham’s appeal against a contempt of court conviction and blogger Leong Sze Hian, who filed a counterclaim against PM Lee in the latter’s defamation suit.
Since 2017, Lee Hsien Yang and his older sister Wei Ling have been embroiled in a long-running public spat with PM Lee over the fate of their old family home at 38 Oxley Road and the last wishes of their late father.Stay in the know on-the-go: Join Yahoo Singapore's Telegram channel at http://t.
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