PSP's Stephanie Tan says CEC renewal shows party's commitment to being a rational alternative choice

Recent changes to the Progress Singapore Party's (PSP) senior leadership represent "the first step" of its plans to come back from a disappointing performance at the 2025 General Election, said PSP's Ms Stephanie Tan.

- Chin Soo Fang

Besides nurturing new leaders, the PSP intends to update its image by putting more of its younger members in the public eye, and to find new ways to engage Singaporeans on important national issues, Ms Tan told Straits Times correspondent Natasha Ann Zachariah and host of ST's The Usual Place podcast during a live stream on July 10.

On July 5, PSP announced that party founder and chairman Tan Cheng Bock had stepped down from its central executive committee (CEC), alongside vice-chair and former Non-Constituency MP (NCMP) Hazel Poa. Party treasurer S. Nallakaruppan also relinquished his position.

In their place, Ms Tan, 37, was co-opted as a new CEC member, together with Mr Sani Ismail and Mr Lawrence Pek.

The three of them had been first-time PSP candidates in the May general election.

Speaking on the podcast show, Ms Tan said PSP had been gathering feedback from Singaporeans in the two months since GE2025 to "know where we went wrong and how we can do better".

PSP had fielded 13 candidates in six constituencies, but saw its vote share decline compared with its first electoral outing in 2020.

It also failed to keep its parliamentary presence unlike in the previous term, when it had two NCMPs.