SINGAPORE - The Workers’ Party (WP) will hold a media conference on Wednesday to address a video of Aljunied GRC MP Leon Perera and senior member Nicole Seah touching hands that was circulated online.

It will be chaired by WP secretary-general and Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh and held at the party’s headquarters in Geylang, the WP’s media team said on Tuesday.

On Monday, the WP had said it was looking into a video clip circulating online that suggests “an inappropriate exchange between two senior party members”.

The 15-second video appears to show Mr Perera stroking the hand of a woman who looks like Ms Seah at a restaurant. 

Both Mr Perera and Ms Seah are separately married with children. They sit on the party’s 15-member central executive committee (CEC) – its top decision-making body.

Several members of the CEC were spotted entering the party’s headquarters in Geylang on Tuesday evening from about 6.30pm. They included Mr Singh, WP chairman Sylvia Lim and vice-chairman Faisal Manap. Former secretary-general Low Thia Khiang arrived at about 8pm.

After the meeting at about 10.30pm, Mr Singh said the CEC’s decision on the party’s next steps would be communicated at the media conference on Wednesday.

Mr Perera, 53, is the MP for Aljunied GRC’s Serangoon division, and heads the party’s media team.

Ms Seah, 36, is the WP’s Youth Wing president, and was one of the party’s candidates in the team that narrowly lost to the People’s Action Party in East Coast GRC at the 2020 General Election.