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SINGAPORE – After almost 40 years in politics, 29 of them as an MP, former Workers’ Party (WP) chief Low Thia Khiang, 63, says he is stepping down from electoral politics with no regrets.
The man who helmed the WP for 17 years said on Thursday (June 25) that he decided not to stand in the coming election as he felt his work was done.
As party chief, he had achieved the twin goals he had set for himself after taking over from the party’s firebrand leader J. B. Jeyaretnam in 2001.
The first was to secure a group representation constituency for the WP, which he did in 2011.
That year, he famously left his long-time Hougang constituency to lead a team to victory in Aljunied GRC, the first and only time an opposition party had won in a GRC.
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