PSP Chairman Tan Cheng Bock Hints at Contesting GE2025

He says party will stand in West Coast GRC regardless of electoral boundary changes

- Ng Wei Kai

Opposition Progress Singapore Party (PSP) founder and chairman Tan Cheng Bock has indicated that he intends to contest the next general election.

When asked after a walkabout in Clementi on Feb 23 if he will stand in the election due by November, Dr Tan, 84, said: "As long as I am able and I am still relevant, I will be around."

Asked again if he will be at the nomination centre before the election, he stopped short of confirming his candidacy, but said: "That has to be the natural conclusion, right?

"I think so long as I am relevant, and I think the country needs people, and I feel that I can contribute to the country, I cannot shirk that duty."

Dr Tan added that the party expects West Coast GRC's boundaries to change before the polls, but he said the party will contest in the area regardless.

"You are a politician, you fight... I am not making excuses - however West Coast is going to be cut, we will be there," he said.

He was also asked why the PSP was walking about in Clementi, which is in the neighbouring Jurong GRC.

Dr Tan said the party wants to have a feel of not just what West Coast residents are thinking, but what other Singaporeans are thinking too.