Non-Constituency MP Leong Mun Wai will not be punished for violating parliamentary procedures and regulations.
This follows a heated exchange between Mr. Leong and Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam in March, which resulted in Mr. Leong withdrawing an allegation of bribery against Keppel Offshore & Marine on Facebook the following day.
During the exchange, Mr Leong, chief of the Progress Singapore Party, had also replied to Speaker Tan Chuan-Jin’s clarification with a remark: “If minister didn’t ask me, I suggest you don’t ask me.”
Mr. Leong apologized later during the same session.
House Leader Indranee Rajah stated on Tuesday in Parliament that since Mr. Leong had apologized, retracted his statements in his Facebook posts, clarified that he had not intended to cast aspersions on ministers, and admitted he was wrong to make the suggestions in his statement to Parliament, "it does not appear that further action is required in this matter."
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