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Leong Mun Wai, assistant secretary-general of Progress Singapore Party, answered a question posed by Japanese media in Japanese on July 14.

The question was posed to him after secretary-general Tan Cheng Bock asked for the media to ask Leong the question in Japanese about PMETs in Singapore.

This was what Leong said, translated:

"There are 400,000 foreign talents in Singapore now (taking up PMET jobs). Among these, I think you can cut down about 10 per cent of them… Basically the Singapore government is saying that without EP, the overall competitiveness will be affected. But we don’t agree. We think a portion of EP and SP can be reduced. For instance, if you reduce 10 per cent of these EP and SP, then tens of thousands of job opportunities can be freed up.

On this, once we enter the parliament, we will proactively push our case to the government."

Background

PSP qualified for two Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) seats in the 14th Parliament of Singapore after its stellar performance at GE2020 for a new party.

The July 14 press con was to unveil Leong and team mate Hazel Poa as the two candidates to take up the NCMP positions.

The PSP West Coast GRC team attained 48.31 per cent of the vote, the highest vote share out of the candidates who were not elected in GE2020.