GE 2025: Trade unionist Natasha Choy joins Desmond Lee’s team in West Coast
[SINGAPORE] PAP fresh face and trade unionist Natasha Choy has joined National Development Minister Desmond Lee’s team in West Coast GRC, getting a grip on key issues and initiatives rolled out in the area.
Choy, who is in her 30s, was seen with Lee, an MP for West Coast GRC, on Wednesday (April 2), at an event held in Jalan Mas Kuning, a landed estate off Clementi Avenue 2.
Responding to questions from reporters, Lee said: “Natasha has joined us recently. She’s an active member of NTUC, a trade unionist, and she’s coming here to learn about the community, and initiatives that we have rolled out.
“And we hope she will contribute actively to active ageing, youth engagement, community bonding, as well as to ensure that we improve the infrastructure, not just in West Coast, but in other parts of our districts as well.”
Choy, who did not speak to reporters, has been seen at West Coast GRC community events since mid-February.
With the latest electoral boundary changes, unveiled on March 11, West Coast GRC will absorb parts of Jurong GRC, and become West Coast-Jurong West GRC when Singaporeans go to the polls.
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Also, parts of West Coast GRC like HarbourFront and Sentosa will be hived off to form Radin Mas SMC, and areas like Dover and Telok Blangah will merge with Tanjong Pagar GRC.
The new West Coast-Jurong West GRC will be a five-member one, and it will have 158,581 voters, up from the 144,516 voters in West Coast GRC during the 2020 General Election.
The PAP won West Coast GRC with 51.68 per cent of the vote against the PSP, led by Dr Tan Cheng Bock, a former PAP stalwart, who helped form PSP in 2019.
In recent months, members of the PSP’s 2020 slate, including Non-Constituency MPs Leong Mun Wai and Hazel Poa, have been spotted in the West Coast area.
West Coast GRC was helmed by former transport minister S Iswaran, who resigned in January 2024 amid a corruption probe. He later pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining gifts as a public servant, and was given 12 months’ jail.
The PAP has not revealed its slate for West Coast-Jurong West GRC, but Lee is expected to be joined by Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Education and Finance Shawn Huang.
Huang oversees the Taman Jurong and Jurong Spring wards in Jurong GRC – both of which now fall under the new West Coast-Jurong West constituency.
Another fresh face who is widely expected to stand for election is orthopaedic surgeon Hamid Razak, who has been active in the Jurong Spring area.
Apart from Lee, West Coast GRC MPs include Foo Mee Har and Ang Wei Neng, both of whom have served three terms.
The general election must be held by November, but is widely expected to take place in the next few months. THE STRAITS TIMES
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