Teo Chee Hean, Heng Swee Keat among 20 PAP MPs who are stepping down

PM Wong pays tribute to DPM Heng and SM Teo, calls them 'giants in public service'

- Hariz Baharudin and Kok Yufeng

There are 20 PAP MPs who will not be contesting in the 2025 General Election, including Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean and Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat.

Besides SM Teo and DPM Heng, other senior office-holders who have stepped down include Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen, and Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and Second Minister for Education and Foreign Affairs Maliki Osman.

Senior Minister of State for Transport and Sustainability and the Environment Amy Khor and Senior Minister of State for Defence Heng Chee How are also not standing for re-election.

Long-serving backbenchers who have retired include four-term MPs Lim Wee Kiak and Lim Biow Chuan, and three-term MPs Sitoh Yih Pin, Gan Thiam Poh and Foo Mee Har. There are also five one-term MPs who were not on the PAP's slate of candidates at the close of Nomination Day on April 23.

SM Teo, who entered politics in 1992 and was anchor minister for Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, had earlier said he would not be standing in the newly formed Pasir Ris-Changi GRC, but stopped short of saying he would retire.