SINGAPORE: Singapore’s main opposition party yesterday (15 Feb) sacked one of its lawmakers after he refused to respond to allegations of extramarital affairs.
“The Workers’ Party (WP) has expelled Yaw Shin Leong from the party with immediate effect,” it said in a statement on its website.
“WP believes strongly in transparency and accountability, and expects no less from our members, especially our Members of Parliament.”
Any sitting MP expelled by his party loses his seat in parliament and has to be replaced in a by-election.
Allegations that Yaw, who is 35 and in his second marriage, had affairs with a married female party worker and a married neighbour have been published in local media an online forums in recent weeks.
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COMMENT: Well, well this is a very interesting story. Firstly it shows how discipline is WP, and it should be a role model for our YBs and ministers in Sarawak.
We know a number of our YBs are indulged in extramarital affairs; some with married women and others with young and unmarried women.
Some do it openly without regard for their reputation and dignity. Yet no disciplinary action is taken against them by their respective parties. The worst part of it is that when they defend their seats, their majorities increase. What an irony!
The second point of the article above is that when WP expelled its MP for gross indiscipline, he loses his seat in parliament.
In Sarawak, we have SPDP expelling five of its elected representatives for gross insubordination.
Instead of losing their seats, they are being applauded to form BN Club in order to justify their place in the Barisan Nasional. There were also previous cases too many to name here; when they (YBs) were forced to quit or resign, they became ‘political frogs’.
