Workers’ Party looking into video that suggests ‘inappropriate exchange’ between Leon Perera and Nicole Seah
THE Workers’ Party is looking into a video clip circulating online that appears to show Member of Parliament Leon Perera sharing an intimate moment with fellow senior party member Nicole Seah.
The 15-second video shows Perera stroking the hand of a woman who seems to be Seah, as the duo have a glass of wine at a restaurant. Cars can be seen going by in the background.
In a statement, the WP said: “The Workers’ Party is aware of a video clip circulating online today that suggests an inappropriate exchange between two senior party members.”
“The party is currently looking into the matter and will comment when we have the facts. The party also expects all its members to fully own and account for their behaviour.”
Both Perera and Seah are married. They are also both on the party’s 15-member Central Executive Committee – its top decision-making body.
Perera is the MP for Aljunied GRC’s Serangoon Division, and heads the party’s media team. He has two children and is married to a woman named Carol, according to previous reports.
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The 53-year-old ran as a WP candidate for East Coast GRC during the 2015 general election and subsequently became a Non-Constituency MP until 2020.
Before joining politics, he was a civil servant and later became the co-founder and chief executive of a business research and consulting agency.
Seah, 36, is the WP’s Youth Wing president, and was one of the party’s candidates in the team that contested in East Coast GRC in the 2020 general election. They narrowly lost to the PAP team led by Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat.
She entered politics in 2011 with the National Solidarity Party at the 2011 general election, where she was the youngest candidate.
Seah and her husband had their second daughter in April 2022. She married her husband, Bryan, in 2015.
The Straits Times has sent queries to WP chief Pritam Singh, Perera and Seah.
This story is developing. THE STRAITS TIMES
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