1. Leon Perera was previously a Non-Constituency Member of Parliament between 2015 and 2020.
21 Facts About Leon Perera
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In July 2023, a video surfaced that allegedly showed Leon Perera holding hands intimately with fellow WP member Nicole Seah.
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Leon Perera have resigned as a member of Workers' Party.
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Leon Perera is a Singaporean of Indian origin and was educated at the Anglo-Chinese School and Hwa Chong Junior College before graduating from Exeter College, Oxford at the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts with double first class honours degree in philosophy, politics and economics.
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Leon Perera began his career as a senior officer at the International Business Development Division of the Economic Development Board.
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Leon Perera went on to serve as Assistant Head in the Enterprise Development Division, where he assisted in the growth of large Singaporean companies in the service sector.
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Leon Perera was the co-founder and chief executive officer of Spire Research and Consulting, an international business research and consulting agency.
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Leon Perera is a member of the Economic Society of Singapore, the Economic Development Board Society and the Singapore Institute of Directors.
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Leon Perera was active in civil society before joining politics.
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Leon Perera served on the committee of local human rights organisation Maruah, was the Vice-President of migrant worker rights organisation HOME, and was an adviser to alternative news website The Independent.
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The Workers' Party thus nominated Leon Perera to be a NCMP in the 13th Parliament.
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Leon Perera requested that the names of Singapore General Hospital and Ministry of Health staff responsible for the outbreak be released, and questioned what penalties or warnings were imposed on these staff.
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In 2018, Leon Perera apologised to Parliament and withdrew an inaccurate example given in the House in response to a question of parliamentary footage access the previous year.
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On 19 July 2023, the Workers' Party announced Leon Perera had resigned his seat in Parliament and membership of the party, after a video was published on Facebook showing him and senior party leader Nicole Seah behaving intimately with one another.
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Leon Perera held a closed-door discussion on politics and elections in Singapore at a bookshop on 20 May 2024.
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Leon Perera highlighted the need to respect the role of civil society and for the government to be less resistant to a more plural political landscape, so as to foster a more antifragile society.
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In 2021, Leon Perera raised a motion on gender equality with Sengkang MP He Ting Ru.
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Leon Perera frequently focused on public accountability issues in his speeches.
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On healthcare, Leon Perera raised an adjournment motion on preventive health reform in 2022, responding to Singapore's poor track record on chronic diseases such as diabetes, by calling on the Government to adopt a highly targeted, outcome-based approach with regular reviews.
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On climate change and the environment, Leon Perera raised an adjournment motion in 2016 calling on the Government to boost support for new industries with non-economic benefits, including renewable energy and environmental technology.
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In July 2023, a video surfaced that allegedly showed Leon Perera holding hands intimately with fellow WP member Nicole Seah.