Debate on President’s Address: Leong Mun Wai on refreshing Singapore’s social compact

The Progress Singapore Party (PSP) strongly supports the call in the President’s Address to refresh Singapore’s social compact. However, it believes that this requires a fundamental rethink of some important policies on jobs, public housing, education and work, and ultimately, what it means to be Singaporean, said NCMP Leong Mun Wai. In Parliament on Tuesday (Apr 18), he reiterated proposals previously made by PSP on foreign manpower and housing policy, and said they had not been given serious consideration by the Government. He called on the Government to refrain from “posturing” or accusing PSP of xenophobia. Mr Leong said the Government must do more to prioritise Singaporeans in the labour and housing markets, and redistribute economic gains so that locals do not feel like “second-class citizens”. He said PSP will continue to put up “serious alternative proposals” and urged the Government to live up to the President’s exhortation for “constructive, respectful and responsible political debates that are based on facts and sound analysis”.