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SINGAPORE: Minister for National Development Desmond Lee will lead the People’s Action Party (PAP) team in West Coast-Jurong West GRC in the upcoming General Election.

The five-member slate includes two new faces: orthopaedic surgeon Hamid Razak, 39, and lawyer Cassandra Lee, 33, the party announced on Tuesday (Apr 15).

The distribution of the meals was also part of this year's Food Resilience Preparedness Programme, an initiative led by SFA. The programme was paused as a precautionary measure following reports of the food poisoning cases, and SFA and MOH began investigating the matter.

They will join Senior Parliamentary Secretary Shawn Huang, whose Taman Jurong division was moved over from Jurong GRC under the new electoral map, and West Coast GRC incumbent MP Ang Wei Neng. 

MPs Foo Mee Har, who entered politics in 2011 and represented the Ayer Rajah-Gek Poh ward, and Rachel Ong, who made her electoral debut in 2020 and oversaw the Telok Blangah division, will not be part of the team. It is unclear whether both will step down or be deployed to other constituencies.

Former transport minister S Iswaran, an MP in the GRC since 1997, resigned in January last year after he was charged with corruption. He eventually pleaded guilty to lesser charges of obtaining gifts and was sentenced to 12 months in jail last October and is currently serving home detention.

The GRC, formerly known as West Coast, was the most hotly contested constituency in the 2020 General Election. Then, the PAP won with 51.69 per cent of the vote against the Progress Singapore Party (PSP), which secured two Non-Constituency MP (NCMP) seats for Mr Leong Mun Wai and Ms Hazel Poa.