section_path: Pre-election activities/Workers' Party/Leadership changes
section_name: Leadership changes
paragraph_text: Leadership changes
  
  After the 2020 general election, the government appointed Workers' Party secretary-general Pritam Singh as Singapore's first official Leader of the Opposition as the WP won ten seats in parliament. In December 2020, secretary-general Singh and chairperson Sylvia Lim were re-elected to their posts unopposed, with the four new MPs of Sengkang GRC elected into the CEC. In 2022, former Hougang SMC MP Png Eng Huat stepped down from the CEC, while Nathaniel Koh, Ang Boon Yaw and Tan Kong Soon were elected into the CEC. On 30 June 2024, former secretary-general Low Thia Khiang remains as a CEC member along with Singh and Lim. Lee Li Lian, former MP of the defunct Punggol East SMC, was reinstated into the CEC on 30 June 2024 after she stepped down in 2021. Lee was working as a town councillor for Sengkang Town Council.
  
  On 13 January 2019, Singh declared the WP's intentions to contest and win one-third of parliament seats in the medium term. Observers on The Straits Times speculated that the party may contest an estimated 30 seats in eastern Singapore. Former secretary-general Low, who did not contest in the previous election due to an injury, was initially adamant that he would remain involved in politics, though he felt that it would be a "back step" to nominate himself for candidacy. On 7 December 2024, Low confirmed he would not contest in the 2025 elections. On 18 November, the WP hired external firms to assist with candidate screening and personality reviews to ensure better representation for Singapore in the upcoming election.