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Predict GE 2025 results - vote your choice on the likely outcome
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Looks like WP going all out this time. This GE 有好戏看了。。
https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...te-look-set-to-be-part-of-wps-slate-in-ge2025
Dr Ong Lue Ping served as IMH’s head of psychology for six years between 2015 and 2021, and director of allied health from 2022 to 2024.ST PHOTOS: WONG PEI TING, ONG WEE JIN
UPDATED Apr 04, 2025, 12:46 AM
SINGAPORE – A former senior leader of the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) and the founder of a start-up are among the new faces tipped for the WP slate, as the opposition party prepares to field what could be its largest ever pool of first-time candidates at the upcoming election.
Dr Ong Lue Ping, 47, who was IMH’s director of allied health from 2022 to 2024, and Mr Michael Thng, 37, a master’s graduate from Harvard Kennedy School, have been touted as two of several “star catches” who will don the party blues.
Based on observations at walkabouts and party sources, The Straits Times estimates that the WP is likely to field at least 17 new faces this time around, many of them professionals including lawyers and management consultants.
This would surpass the record 16 newcomers in 2011 and 2015, and almost double the nine fielded in 2020. It comes on the back of the opposition party’s medium-term goal to win one-third of the seats in Parliament.
The WP is expected to field at least 30 candidates in eight constituencies. They are Aljunied, Sengkang, Punggol, East Coast, Marine Parade-Braddell Heights and Tampines GRCs, and the single seats of Hougang and Tampines Changkat.
For now, ST has spotted 13 new faces, with an average age of 43. This is higher than that of the crop of new faces in the past two elections. WP newcomers averaged 39.3 years in age in 2015 and 37.4 in 2020.
Dr Ong was first spotted on the ground in the new Punggol GRC in February, alongside three-time WP candidate and former Non-Constituency MP Yee Jenn Jong. He was then wearing a light-blue polo tee with no party logo, indicating that he had not yet joined the party.
In the surest sign of his candidacy, he showed up at the WP’s Geylang Road headquarters on March 29 for a photo-taking session for the party’s election candidates.
ST understands that Dr Ong has been volunteering with the opposition party for some months, including as a case writer for Hougang MP Dennis Tan at his Meet-the-People Sessions.
He is currently a senior principal clinical psychologist at IMH. In his former role, he was part of the psychiatric hospital’s circle of 10 senior leaders. Before that, he had served as IMH’s head of psychology for six years.
He was also a member of Compass – a national council to advise the Ministry of Education on how to strengthen partnerships between parents, schools and the community. He left the role in December 2024, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Meanwhile, ST understands that Mr Thng has gone through the vetting process for potential candidates and is likely to stand in five-member Tampines GRC, where the WP looks set to contest for the first time.
He was spotted with three potential teammates – industrial equipment sales manager Jimmy Tan, 53; payment expert Jasper Kuan, 46; and former Boston Consulting Group (BCG) management consultant Andre Low, 33 – along with other Tampines volunteers, outside the WP headquarters on March 28.
After graduating from university in 2016, Mr Thng joined Big Three management consultancy BCG as a principal, and later co-founded a product discovery and sampling start-up called Showdrop.
Mr Michael Thng holds a master’s degree in public policy from the well-known Harvard Kennedy School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Singapore Policy Journal.PHOTO: MICHAEL THNG VIA ROCKETREACH
He did his undergraduate studies in economics and international business at New York University and holds a master’s degree in public policy from the well-known Harvard Kennedy School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Singapore Policy Journal, which publishes analyses of Singapore policy by students and researchers.
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Among the other 11 new faces, some have already set up public-facing social media accounts, had their formal portraits taken, and started walking the ground, including in areas such as MacPherson, Chai Chee and Joo Chiat, where electoral boundaries have changed.
Five of the 13 are men in their 30s: Mr Thng, Mr Low, Mr Jackson Au, 35, Mr Kenneth Tiong, 36, and Mr Abdul Muhaimin Abdul Malik, 35.
Mr Tiong, a former head quant developer at Brahman Capital, is expected to be fielded in Aljunied GRC. Since 2024, he has been coordinating Meet-the-People Sessions at the group representation constituency’s Serangoon ward, which has been left vacant since July 2023 when WP MP Leon Perera stepped down.
In a Facebook post on his newly set up public page on March 26, Mr Tiong, who is now director of Sensemake AI, a tech start-up, revealed he has been volunteering with the WP for some time. “As we approach the upcoming general election, I feel compelled to step up and play a more active role in shaping the conversation about where our nation is headed,” he wrote.
Mr Abdul Muhaimin Abdul Malik is slated to fill the vacancy at former WP MP Raeesah Khan’s Compassvale ward.PHOTO: ABDUL MUHAIMIN ABDUL MALIK/FACEBOOK
Mr Muhaimin, a senior property manager at Aljunied-Hougang Town Council, looks set to contest in Sengkang GRC, and has been attending the constituency’s events alongside its MPs He Ting Ru, Louis Chua and Jamus Lim. He is slated to fill the vacancy at former WP MP Raeesah Khan’s Compassvale ward.
Mr Low, who started his career as a disputes lawyer with Drew & Napier, left BCG in February after news of his possible candidacy emerged. He is now a product manager at a global fintech company. He is also an aide to Mr Chua and a core member of the WP media team.
Mr Fadli Fawzi, Mr Andre Low, Ms Sylvia Lim and Mr Harpreet Singh are some members of the WP who are legally trained.PHOTO: THE WORKERS’ PARTY/FACEBOOK
He is one of three legally trained individuals among the new faces. The other two are senior counsel Harpreet Singh, 59, who runs boutique law firm Audent Chambers, and Mr Ang Boon Yaw, 42, of Yeo Marini Law Corporation.
Mr Ang is active in East Coast GRC, walking the ground alongside two-time WP candidate Kenneth Foo, 47, a deputy director at the Singapore Cancer Society, and former researcher Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim, 59, who made his electoral debut in 2020.
Lawyer Ang Boon Yaw (far right) has been active in East Coast GRC, walking alongside two-time WP candidate Kenneth Foo (third from right).PHOTO: KENNETH FOO/FACEBOOK
Mr Singh, another WP star catch, had been spotted as far back as 2023, in what was then Marine Parade GRC. The areas he has covered now fall mostly in the recently renamed Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC.
While he walks the ground with IT professional Nathaniel Koh, 41, and lawyer Fadli Fawzi, 44, who are likely to make their second bid in the constituency, party sources say Mr Singh may be fielded elsewhere come Nomination Day.
Mr Jackson Au at a Ramadan food distribution in March. He is expected to contest in Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC.PHOTO: FADLI FAWZI/FACEBOOK
Rounding out the team in Marine Parade-Braddell Heights is Mr Au, who is a senior manager of corporate affairs and marketing with the London Stock Exchange Group. He has been volunteering for the party since 2022, was Mr Perera’s legislative assistant for six months until the MP resigned, and is currently part of the media team.
The new face seen in Punggol with Dr Ong is Mr Daniel Lee, 47, a self-employed corporate trainer.
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The WP is also expected to field Mr Tan Kong Soon, an assistant director of alumni engagement at NTU, for the first time.
The 48-year-old is not new to the party, having been a member since 2007 and a recurring face on the party’s central executive committee – the party’s highest decision-making body.
A legislative assistant to former WP chief and Aljunied GRC MP Low Thia Khiang from 2013 to 2017, he will enter the 2025 polls as the party’s deputy organising secretary.
It is unclear where Mr Tan will stand. He was previously sighted covering areas in what is now known as Punggol GRC.
The sole woman among the 13 is Ms Afifah Khalid. The 42-year-old associate director in the financial services industry is expected to stand in Tampines GRC.
Former Workers’ Party chief Low Thia Khiang (centre) with the four tipped to be candidates in Tampines: Mr Andre Low (second from left), Mr Jasper Kuan (fourth from left), Ms Afifah Khalid (third from right) and Mr Jimmy Tan (second from right).PHOTO: THE WORKERS' PARTY
At this point, 46 is the average age of the 13 new faces and the 13 WP candidates who are expected to contest again. Unless there are last minute shake-ups, the WP slate for the 2025 General Election is set to be slightly older than its slates in the past two elections, which both averaged 42 years old.
ST has reached out to the WP for comment.UPDATED Apr 04, 2025, 12:46 AM
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https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...te-look-set-to-be-part-of-wps-slate-in-ge2025
Ex-IMH director, Harvard graduate look set to be part of WP’s slate in GE2025
Dr Ong Lue Ping served as IMH’s head of psychology for six years between 2015 and 2021, and director of allied health from 2022 to 2024.ST PHOTOS: WONG PEI TING, ONG WEE JIN
UPDATED Apr 04, 2025, 12:46 AM
SINGAPORE – A former senior leader of the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) and the founder of a start-up are among the new faces tipped for the WP slate, as the opposition party prepares to field what could be its largest ever pool of first-time candidates at the upcoming election.
Dr Ong Lue Ping, 47, who was IMH’s director of allied health from 2022 to 2024, and Mr Michael Thng, 37, a master’s graduate from Harvard Kennedy School, have been touted as two of several “star catches” who will don the party blues.
Based on observations at walkabouts and party sources, The Straits Times estimates that the WP is likely to field at least 17 new faces this time around, many of them professionals including lawyers and management consultants.
This would surpass the record 16 newcomers in 2011 and 2015, and almost double the nine fielded in 2020. It comes on the back of the opposition party’s medium-term goal to win one-third of the seats in Parliament.
The WP is expected to field at least 30 candidates in eight constituencies. They are Aljunied, Sengkang, Punggol, East Coast, Marine Parade-Braddell Heights and Tampines GRCs, and the single seats of Hougang and Tampines Changkat.
For now, ST has spotted 13 new faces, with an average age of 43. This is higher than that of the crop of new faces in the past two elections. WP newcomers averaged 39.3 years in age in 2015 and 37.4 in 2020.
Dr Ong was first spotted on the ground in the new Punggol GRC in February, alongside three-time WP candidate and former Non-Constituency MP Yee Jenn Jong. He was then wearing a light-blue polo tee with no party logo, indicating that he had not yet joined the party.
In the surest sign of his candidacy, he showed up at the WP’s Geylang Road headquarters on March 29 for a photo-taking session for the party’s election candidates.
ST understands that Dr Ong has been volunteering with the opposition party for some months, including as a case writer for Hougang MP Dennis Tan at his Meet-the-People Sessions.
He is currently a senior principal clinical psychologist at IMH. In his former role, he was part of the psychiatric hospital’s circle of 10 senior leaders. Before that, he had served as IMH’s head of psychology for six years.
He was also a member of Compass – a national council to advise the Ministry of Education on how to strengthen partnerships between parents, schools and the community. He left the role in December 2024, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Meanwhile, ST understands that Mr Thng has gone through the vetting process for potential candidates and is likely to stand in five-member Tampines GRC, where the WP looks set to contest for the first time.
He was spotted with three potential teammates – industrial equipment sales manager Jimmy Tan, 53; payment expert Jasper Kuan, 46; and former Boston Consulting Group (BCG) management consultant Andre Low, 33 – along with other Tampines volunteers, outside the WP headquarters on March 28.
After graduating from university in 2016, Mr Thng joined Big Three management consultancy BCG as a principal, and later co-founded a product discovery and sampling start-up called Showdrop.
Mr Michael Thng holds a master’s degree in public policy from the well-known Harvard Kennedy School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Singapore Policy Journal.PHOTO: MICHAEL THNG VIA ROCKETREACH
He did his undergraduate studies in economics and international business at New York University and holds a master’s degree in public policy from the well-known Harvard Kennedy School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Singapore Policy Journal, which publishes analyses of Singapore policy by students and researchers.
GE2025: WP’s likely replacement for Raeesah Khan outlines plans for improvements in SengkangElection spotlight: Close fight to decide if WP keeps Sengkang or PAP wins it
What is known of WP’s slate
Among the other 11 new faces, some have already set up public-facing social media accounts, had their formal portraits taken, and started walking the ground, including in areas such as MacPherson, Chai Chee and Joo Chiat, where electoral boundaries have changed.
Five of the 13 are men in their 30s: Mr Thng, Mr Low, Mr Jackson Au, 35, Mr Kenneth Tiong, 36, and Mr Abdul Muhaimin Abdul Malik, 35.
Mr Tiong, a former head quant developer at Brahman Capital, is expected to be fielded in Aljunied GRC. Since 2024, he has been coordinating Meet-the-People Sessions at the group representation constituency’s Serangoon ward, which has been left vacant since July 2023 when WP MP Leon Perera stepped down.
In a Facebook post on his newly set up public page on March 26, Mr Tiong, who is now director of Sensemake AI, a tech start-up, revealed he has been volunteering with the WP for some time. “As we approach the upcoming general election, I feel compelled to step up and play a more active role in shaping the conversation about where our nation is headed,” he wrote.
Mr Abdul Muhaimin Abdul Malik is slated to fill the vacancy at former WP MP Raeesah Khan’s Compassvale ward.PHOTO: ABDUL MUHAIMIN ABDUL MALIK/FACEBOOK
Mr Muhaimin, a senior property manager at Aljunied-Hougang Town Council, looks set to contest in Sengkang GRC, and has been attending the constituency’s events alongside its MPs He Ting Ru, Louis Chua and Jamus Lim. He is slated to fill the vacancy at former WP MP Raeesah Khan’s Compassvale ward.
Mr Low, who started his career as a disputes lawyer with Drew & Napier, left BCG in February after news of his possible candidacy emerged. He is now a product manager at a global fintech company. He is also an aide to Mr Chua and a core member of the WP media team.
Mr Fadli Fawzi, Mr Andre Low, Ms Sylvia Lim and Mr Harpreet Singh are some members of the WP who are legally trained.PHOTO: THE WORKERS’ PARTY/FACEBOOK
He is one of three legally trained individuals among the new faces. The other two are senior counsel Harpreet Singh, 59, who runs boutique law firm Audent Chambers, and Mr Ang Boon Yaw, 42, of Yeo Marini Law Corporation.
Mr Ang is active in East Coast GRC, walking the ground alongside two-time WP candidate Kenneth Foo, 47, a deputy director at the Singapore Cancer Society, and former researcher Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim, 59, who made his electoral debut in 2020.
Lawyer Ang Boon Yaw (far right) has been active in East Coast GRC, walking alongside two-time WP candidate Kenneth Foo (third from right).PHOTO: KENNETH FOO/FACEBOOK
Mr Singh, another WP star catch, had been spotted as far back as 2023, in what was then Marine Parade GRC. The areas he has covered now fall mostly in the recently renamed Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC.
While he walks the ground with IT professional Nathaniel Koh, 41, and lawyer Fadli Fawzi, 44, who are likely to make their second bid in the constituency, party sources say Mr Singh may be fielded elsewhere come Nomination Day.
Mr Jackson Au at a Ramadan food distribution in March. He is expected to contest in Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC.PHOTO: FADLI FAWZI/FACEBOOK
Rounding out the team in Marine Parade-Braddell Heights is Mr Au, who is a senior manager of corporate affairs and marketing with the London Stock Exchange Group. He has been volunteering for the party since 2022, was Mr Perera’s legislative assistant for six months until the MP resigned, and is currently part of the media team.
The new face seen in Punggol with Dr Ong is Mr Daniel Lee, 47, a self-employed corporate trainer.
Election spotlight: Race hots up in Tampines as multi-cornered fights loom Election spotlight: PAP could face WP, NSP in 3-cornered fight at Marine Parade-Braddell Heights
The WP is also expected to field Mr Tan Kong Soon, an assistant director of alumni engagement at NTU, for the first time.
The 48-year-old is not new to the party, having been a member since 2007 and a recurring face on the party’s central executive committee – the party’s highest decision-making body.
A legislative assistant to former WP chief and Aljunied GRC MP Low Thia Khiang from 2013 to 2017, he will enter the 2025 polls as the party’s deputy organising secretary.
It is unclear where Mr Tan will stand. He was previously sighted covering areas in what is now known as Punggol GRC.
The sole woman among the 13 is Ms Afifah Khalid. The 42-year-old associate director in the financial services industry is expected to stand in Tampines GRC.
Former Workers’ Party chief Low Thia Khiang (centre) with the four tipped to be candidates in Tampines: Mr Andre Low (second from left), Mr Jasper Kuan (fourth from left), Ms Afifah Khalid (third from right) and Mr Jimmy Tan (second from right).PHOTO: THE WORKERS' PARTY
At this point, 46 is the average age of the 13 new faces and the 13 WP candidates who are expected to contest again. Unless there are last minute shake-ups, the WP slate for the 2025 General Election is set to be slightly older than its slates in the past two elections, which both averaged 42 years old.
ST has reached out to the WP for comment.UPDATED Apr 04, 2025, 12:46 AM
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