What does the future hold for the Workers’ Party?

Those who urge the Workers’ Party to form an opposition coalition may well be the ones who fracture it when they realise they cannot move the WP towards their own political vision for Singapore.

Workers’ Party secretary-general Pritam Singh in a 2020 photo with party chairman Sylvia Lim (right) and central executive committee members Nicole Seah (left) and Louis Chua. PHOTO: ST FILE
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Can the Workers' Party (WP) gain even more ground in the next general election, after having won 10 out of 93 parliamentary seats in 2020? What is the likelihood of an opposition coalition in Singapore?

These and other questions are the subject of political observer Derek da Cunha's book Breakthrough 2.0: Singaporeans Push For Parliamentary Democracy, published in January by World Scientific Publishing, in which he makes the case for why the WP must continue to position itself as politically moderate.

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