Opposition party member open to contesting next GE
By
Kor Kian Beng & Jeremy Au Yong
Mr Jeyaretnam, a fund manager, sees a need for a 'real economist' on the political scene. -- TNP FILE PHOTO
MR KENNETH Jeyaretnam, the elder son of late opposition leader J.B. Jeyaretnam, has joined the opposition ranks and is not ruling out contesting the next general election.
Three weeks ago, he joined the Reform Party, which was set up by his father a few months before he died last September.
The 50-year-old hedge fund manager was co-opted into the party's 13-man central executive committee (CEC) a week later.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.