{"id":69522,"date":"2025-02-17T15:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T06:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/17\/singapore-opposition-leader-pritam-singh-guilty-lying-to-parliament-electoral-ban-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-02-17T15:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T06:13:12","slug":"singapore-opposition-leader-found-guilty-of-lying-to-parliament-could-face-electoral-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69522","title":{"rendered":"Singapore opposition leader, found guilty of lying to parliament, could face electoral ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pritam Singh\u2019s conviction is a blow to the city state\u2019s struggling political opposition, which is seeking to challenge the entrenched ruling party in upcoming elections<\/p>\n<p>Singapore\u2019s opposition leader has been convicted of lying to parliament while helping a fellow party member to cover up a false witness account, in a case that could disqualify him from running in upcoming national elections.<\/p>\n<p>Pritam Singh, 48, secretary-general of the Workers\u2019 Party, was found guilty on Monday on two counts of lying to a parliamentary committee that was investigating a fellow MP.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/17\/singapore-opposition-leader-pritam-singh-guilty-lying-to-parliament-electoral-ban-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pritam Singh\u2019s conviction is a blow to the city state\u2019s struggling political opposition, which is seeking to challenge the entrenched ruling party in upcoming electionsSingapore\u2019s opposition leader has been convicted of lying to parliament while helpin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,783,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-singapore","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69523,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69522\/revisions\/69523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}