Desmond Lee to anchor West Coast-Jurong West PAP team; Patrick Tay to defend Pioneer SMC

GRC team includes 2 new faces - lawyer Cassandra Lee and orthopaedic surgeon Hamid Razak

- Ng Wei Kai and Hariz Baharudin

Minister for National Development Desmond Lee will anchor the PAP team in the newly formed West Coast-Jurong West GRC.

The party on April 15 also introduced two new faces - orthopaedic surgeon Hamid Razak, 39, and lawyer Cassandra Lee, 33.

Rounding out the slate are Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Finance and Education Shawn Huang, 42, and three-term MP Ang Wei Neng, 58.

Labour MP Patrick Tay will stand again in Pioneer SMC, which he won in 2020.

Introducing the slate at a press conference on April 15 held at the party's West Coast branch, Mr Lee, 48, said: "We would like to seek residents' support so that we can implement our plans and continue to roll out the existing programmes that we have initiated over the past few years."

He said that the team is diverse, with members who have been working hard on the ground for some time.

Mr Lee added: "We're a mix of incumbents as well as new candidates to bring in new thinking, new ways of doing things, to refresh the team serving on the ground."

First-term MP Rachel Ong was left off the slate for West Coast-Jurong West GRC, and was not present at the press conference.

She is expected to move to Tanjong Pagar GRC as her Telok Blangah ward has shifted there under the new electoral boundaries unveiled on March 11.