NSP Elects new Secretary-General to lead them into next GE
The National Solidarity Party (NSP) recently held their elections for their central executive committee (CEC) and elected a new secretary general to lead them into the next GE.
The vote was held with about 40 members at the party’s headquarters yesterday.
According to TNP, the present secretary-general, Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss, has been voted out and in her place, fellow lawyer Tan Lam Siong ,53, has been voted as the man to lead the party.
The newly elected secretary general, Mr Tan had worked closely with Jeannette for her election campaign in GE2011.
Mr Tan, a father of three is a lawyer who also has qualifications in psychology and clinical hypnotherapy.
The party’s president did not change as Sebastian Teo, 66, was re-elected to remain as the party president, a role he has held for 6 terms.
Mr Teo explained that NSP is not ready to release the full list of their CEC members as they still want the elected CEC to hold their first meeting on Feb 2 to finalise all the details including co-opted members and office bearers. A full list will be released on Feb 3.
It is understood that Mrs Chong-Aruldoss was not voted to be part of the CEC at all and another member, Ravi Philemon, who was previously co-opted into the CEC was also not elected inside.
Mr Philemon said that he is not sure at the moment if he will be co-opted again.
According to TNP, Mrs Chong Aruldoss had been advocating for a new and innovative way to bring the party forward but this was not as popular among the old-guard in the party.