SINGAPORE — Workers' Party member Nicole Seah has resigned from the party after admitting that she had an affair with Aljunied GRC MP Leon Perera. The resignation of the two party stalwarts was announced by WP secretary-general Pritam Singh at a media briefing on Wednesday. On Monday (July 17), a 15-second video clip emerged online, which showed Perera sitting at...
Both of them sat on the WP central executive committee.
During the third year of her undergraduate studies at NUS, she became managing editor of independent online publication The Campus Observer, where her interest in politics blossomed further.Seah was part of a mass exodus from the Reform Party in February 2011 that was linked to differences in opinion within the party.
Her eloquence and looks helped her gain favour with voters, such that local wits said NSP stood for the "Nicole Seah Party". He said: "She communicated very well. She spoke quite persuasively to the younger people as well as some older people."In the years after GE 2011, Seah suffered rape and death threats on e-mail and Twitter, and was reportedly stalked.
In a Facebook note, she also called her endorsement of presidential candidate Tan Jee Say in 2011 a "terrible, irreversible mistake" and said she was "arm-twisted" into doing so.Seah took a leave of absence from the NSP in 2013 and moved to Bangkok to further her advertising career the next year. Under intense scrutiny from the media, she also separated from boyfriend Steven Goh — who was chief executive of social networking site Mig33.
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