GE2025: PSP confirms it will contest Marymount, Kebun Baru, Pioneer SMCs again
Leong Mun Wai (centre) of PSP meets Marymount SMC MP Gan Siow Huang (left) ahead of his walkabout on Saturday. PHOTO: ST
[SINGAPORE] The opposition Progress Singapore Party (PSP) will be returning to contest the Marymount, Kebun Baru and Pioneer SMCs in the upcoming general election, with party leaders saying they would confirm their candidates closer to Nomination Day.
Party leaders were spotted on walkabouts in the various constituencies with potential candidates on the morning of Saturday (Apr 12).
PSP secretary-general Leong Mun Wai told reporters on the sidelines of a walkabout at Bishan North Shopping Mall that the party has not decided on the candidate it will field in Marymount.
This will be made public before or on Nomination Day, said Leong, who was joined by former PSP central executive committee member Jeffrey Khoo on the walkabout.
Leong said: “We think that Marymount residents have indicated to us in the last round that they would consider PSP as a credible alternative in Marymount.
“So I look forward to a breakthrough this round.”
Marymount SMC was carved out of Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC before the 2020 General Election.
Dr Ang Yong Guan, who was PSP assistant secretary-general at that time, contested the constituency against Gan Siow Huang from the PAP and lost with 44.96 per cent of the vote.
PSP’s return to Marymount sets the stage for a multi-cornered fight in the SMC.
In a Facebook post on Mar 11, Lim Tean, the secretary-general of opposition coalition People’s Alliance for Reform, indicated that it will be contesting in two group representation constituencies and eight single-member constituencies, including Marymount.
In March, Gan, who is minister of state for education and manpower, told
The Straits Times that she hoped to contest Marymount SMC again.
At the party’s walkabout at Kebun Baru’s Mayflower Market, PSP first vice-chairperson Hazel Poa also did not confirm who PSP would field in that constituency.
Poa was joined by her husband, Tony Tan – who she described as “one of the potential candidates”.
She told reporters that the party is “keeping (its) options open”, adding that the party could decide to field her or Leong in a SMC.
The duo previously contested in West Coast GRC in the 2020 General Election.
Speaking to reporters, Tan said: “I think the high cost of living and the economic uncertainty is going to weigh heavily on our society, stretching our social fabric. There will be Singaporeans who feel left behind, or are left behind, and I think we as a country can do more for them.”
PSP contested Kebun Baru SMC in GE2020. The party’s Kumaran Pillai lost to PAP’s Henry Kwek, who won with a vote share of 62.92 per cent. PSP obtained 37.08 per cent of the votes.
Speaking to the media at 652 Jurong West Street 61, PSP founder and chairman Tan Cheng Bock said on Saturday that the party will be contesting the Pioneer SMC but will only decide who to field close to Nomination Day.
He was joined by former PSP candidate Lim Cher Hong – who contested the SMC in GE2020 – and the party’s new face Stephanie Tan.
Stephanie Tan, who is turning 38 in 2025, is a full-time homemaker with a law degree from the National University of Singapore. She has two young children.