SINGAPORE – Two-time general election candidate Terence Tan, who represented the Workers’ Party (WP) in Marine Parade GRC in 2015 and East Coast GRC in 2020, has left the opposition party to focus on his career and family.
The 53-year-old, who is married to Sengkang GRC MP He Ting Ru, told The Straits Times he had stepped down from the party in January, and that the party’s leaders had been very understanding about it.
“I think from the perspective of one nuclear family with young children, my wife’s contribution is sufficient,” said Mr Tan, who has three sons below the age of seven with Ms He.
“I feel that my time is better served trying to support my wife, to spend more time with my kids, and to develop my career.”
Mr Tan started volunteering with the WP shortly after the 2011 General Election, and became a member of the party in 2012. He was in the party’s central executive committee as deputy organising secretary from 2018 to 2020.
In his electoral debut in 2015, Mr Tan was part of the party’s Marine Parade GRC team that garnered 35.9 per cent of the vote against the incumbent People’s Action Party (PAP) team led by then minister Tan Chuan-Jin.
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