16 Facts About Faisal Manap

Muhamad Faisal bin Abdul Manap is a Singaporean politician who has been serving as Vice-Chairman of the Workers' Party since 2016 and an advisor for Sengkang GRC since 2021.

Faisal Manap subsequently went on to complete a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology at Monash University in 2005.

Between 1998 and 2002, Faisal Manap worked as a technical officer in the Housing and Development Board of Singapore.

From 2006 to 2010, Faisal Manap worked as a freelance counselor and counseled couples on marriage and divorce.

Faisal Manap joined the Workers' Party in February 2006 and first entered politics during the 2011 general election as the ethnic minority candidate in a five-member Workers' Party team along with Pritam Singh, Sylvia Lim, Low Thia Kiang and Chen Show Mao contesting in Aljunied GRC against the governing People's Action Party.

Faisal Manap thus became a Member of Parliament representing the Kaki Bukit ward of Aljunied GRC in the 12th Parliament on 9 May 2011.

The Workers' Party has since retained its parliamentary seats in Aljunied GRC in the subsequent general elections and Faisal Manap has continued serving as the Member of Parliament representing Kaki Bukit.

Faisal Manap is an elected member of the Aljunied-Hougang Town Council.

Faisal Manap stated that he did not fully agree with the principle of the separation of religion from politics.

Faisal Manap argued that while people "shouldn't use religion for the benefit of politics", it is inevitable that religion and politics are intertwined in the formulation of policies.

Since he had been elected to Parliament in 2011, Faisal Manap had persistently raised the issue of allowing Muslim nurses and women in uniformed services to don the tudung in the course of their duty.

Faisal Manap though was absent due to a COVID-19 infection, had conveyed through his party leader, Pritam Singh, in the first day of the parliamentary debate that he was in opposition of a repeal of the law as "a matter of religion and conscience".

Faisal Manap would have voted against the repeal on the following day if he could be present.

Faisal Manap was elected Vice Chairman of the Workers' Party central executive committee on 29 May 2016, taking over the position from Mohammed Rahizan Yaacob.

On 24 July 2023, Faisal Manap was admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital due to a cardiac condition.

In June 2014, Faisal Manap was seen alongside campaign organisers and supporters at a Wear White campaign, an anti-LGBT movement in Singapore that opposes homosexuality and Pink Dot SG.