Analysis: Next Speaker's impartiality under more scrutiny after Tan Chuan-Jin's hot mic remark, affair with MP

Analysis: Next Speaker's impartiality under more scrutiny after Tan Chuan-Jin's hot mic remark, affair with MP

Today·2023-07-19 08:00

SINGAPORE —  Following Mr Tan Chuan-Jin's resignation as Speaker of Parliament, there is likely to be more intense scrutiny on who will take over the role given an increased focus on the importance of the Speaker's impartiality, said political analysts. 

Although somewhat overshadowed by more recent revelations of his affair with a Member of Parliament (MP), Mr Tan had in early July landed in hot water for using “unparliamentary language" during an April sitting in reaction to a speech made by Workers' Party MP Jamus Lim.

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