SINGAPORE – Recent changes to the Progress Singapore Party’s (PSP) senior leadership represents “the first step” of its plans to come back from a disappointing performance at GE2025, said PSP’s Stephanie Tan.

Besides nurturing new leaders, the PSP intends to update its image by putting more of its younger members in the public eye, and to find new ways to engage Singaporeans on important national issues, Ms Tan told The Straits Times on July 10.

On July 5, PSP announced that party founder and chairman Tan Cheng Bock had

stepped down from its central executive committee (CEC)

, alongside vice-chair and former Non-Constituency MP (NCMP) Hazel Poa. Party treasurer S. Nallakaruppan also relinquished his position.

In their place, Ms Tan, 37, was co-opted as a new CEC member, together with Mr Sani Ismail and Mr Lawrence Pek. The three of them had been first-time PSP candidates at the May general election.

Speaking on ST’s The Usual Place Podcast show, Ms Tan said PSP had been gathering feedback from Singaporeans in the two months since GE2025 to “know where we went wrong and how we can do better”.

PSP had fielded 13 candidates in six constituencies, but

saw its vote share decline

compared to its first electoral outing in 2020. It also failed to keep its parliamentary...