‘I believe Tan Cheng Bock’s vision will build a better S’pore’: Lee Hsien Yang on why he joined PSP
Wednesday, 24 Jun 2020 09:51 PM MYT
TODAY had asked Dr Tan if he thought Mr Lee’s addition to the party might lead to a backlash, as some might think that a family dispute is being brought into the political landscape. The dispute over PM Lee and his two siblings’ family home and whether to demolish it in relation to the last will of their father, former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, went public in 2017.
Dr Tan and Mr Lee were taking questions from the media after their 8.30am breakfast meeting at Tiong Bahru Market, which lies within Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency . When asked about the significance of their meeting taking place in Tanjong Pagar GRC, where Mr Lee’s late father served as a Member of Parliament for 60 years, Mr Lee would only say: “I am here to have breakfast. The wanton noodles were very good.”Mr Lee was asked several times if he would be fielded as a PSP candidate in the coming General Election , which will be held on July 10.
Before the breakfast meeting ended at about 9.50am, the ruling People’s Action Party started holding various press conferences to announce their new candidates for GE2020. “They might win this battle, but they are going to lose the war. And we are going to suffer,” he added. Mr Lee and his sister have been estranged from their older brother after the disagreement over their family home at 38 Oxley Road.
“If they frame it too tightly around the family battle, then we know they brought the familial battle in there,” she said. “Or is this really a battle of ideas at the level of the state and of the nature of policies and procedures and programmes?” Singapore Management University law lecturer Eugene Tan concurred that he would be “very surprised” if Mr Lee was a candidate and that he does not seem like “a political animal”.
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